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PORTRAIT-COLLECTOR AND PRINTSELLER'S 

CHRONICLE, 

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WITH 

Infatuation* of ctietg Degctiption. 



A HUMOROUS POEM. 

JiVr J'OUJK BOOKS. 
WITH COPIOUS NOTES EXPLANATORY 



J3Y" SATIRICUS SCULPTOR, ESQ. 



Cacoethes Carpendi. 




"If the Cap ets, wear it." '- 

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PRINTED FOR R. S. KIRBY, LONDON-HOUSE-YARD, 
PATER-NOSTER-ROW. 



1814. 



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Betrication. 



TO 



JAMES BINDLEY, Esq. 

DEAR SIR, 

AN intimacy of many years 
standing, and the data of our births 
not being very far removed, prompts 
me to select you as the Personage best 
calculated to patronize this playful ebul- 
lition of my Hudibrastic Muse, which 
is solely intended to act as an whole- 
some corrective to individuals, whose 
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iv DEDICATION. 



faculties, diametrically opposite to your 
own, possess no one requisite necessary 
for the prosecution of that pursuit which 
they have most unthinkingly adopted, 
and for which you justly claim un- 
rivalled pre-eminence ; permit me, there- 
fore, to subscribe myself, with every 
sentiment of respectful regard, 

Dear Sir, 

Your most obedient and very 

Humble Servant, 

THE AUTHOR. 

Cambridge, Aug. 30, 1813, 



preface. 



Notwithstanding the P iaymi vein of 

ironical satire that characterizes the ensuing 
pages, I think it expedient to acquaint my 
readers that the information they contain is 
not the mere result of a few months enquiry, 
but owes its foundation to many years research 
into, and connexion with, the Mysteries of 
Chalcographian and other Ma?iias. 

From the nature of this work, it may very 
naturally be inferred, that I have been a con- 
stant attendant at print, and book sales, and 
b2 



vi PREFACE. 



am perfectly well versed in all the intricacies 
of Collectings than which nothing is more cer- 
tain, as I am not only personally known to the 
living tribe of Chalcographiajis, but was very 
closely connected with all the most celebrated 
personages that have figured in the Drama of 
Collecting, but who have now paid the last 
debt of nature, leaving the produce of their 
labours to the British Museum, or consigning 
them to the fate of the Hammer. 

As secrecy is the main object, which I am 
desirous to accomplish, in offering this volume 
to the public, I must confess I have not only 
found it very difficult to select a channel ap- 
plicable to my purpose, but was equally per- 
plexed in adopting a style of writing that 



PREFACE. vii 



was likely to veil me in obscurity. This 
work, trifling as it may appear, was written 
over two successive times prior to its being 
decked in the present costume, but for very 
cogent reasons, I thought it most advisable to 
cancel such manuscripts, in order to produce 
the present ebullition of my fancy, which may 
thus stand a chance of being palmed upon 
some poetaster of the day, leaving me in the 
full enjoyment of that enviable pleasure which 
results from mingling unsuspected with the 
numerous conjecturers that will hazard their 
opinions in consequence of the present pub- 
lication. 

As the shaft of ridicule is divested of its 
poignant sting, when hazarded at the expence 



viii PREFACE. 



of sterling truth, I deem it most essentially 
necessary to assure the public, that upon the 
score of veracity my several statements are so 
strictly in unison with absolute matter of fact, 
that I would most willingly subject the reputa- 
tion of my work on this head, to the decision 
of any unbiassed individual long acquainted 
with Gentlemen Collectors and the Printselling 
Trade; being thoroughly convinced that such 
fiat would prove in accordance with the several 
assertions herein contained. 

It is almost superfluous to remark, that in a 
work like the present (to use a metaphoric 
mode of expression) the shoe will very fre- 
quently pinch the wearer; a species of inflic- 
tion which nothing but the most urgent neces- 



PREFACE. ix 



sity could have prompted me to adopt ; but, 
when a disease is found next to irremediable, 
the administration of lenient prescriptions is not 
likely to effect a radical cure, as in such cases 
it is absolutely necessary that the instrument 
should probe in order to cleanse the gangrened 
wound ; wherefore, like an experienced opera- 
tor, I have felt the urgent necessity of admini- 
stering caustic to the afflicted part. 

Being by nature a very quiet inoffensive 
man, I should act with injustice to myself were 
I not thus publicly to assure the community 
at large, that I harbour no animosity whatsoever 
towards any particular individual thus blazoned 
on my page; and with this assurance, I shall 
now close my laconic Preface, quoting the ener- 



PREFACE. 



getic exclamation of Ovid, as strictly appli- 
cable to the subject matter of the ensuing 
pages. 

Proh superi ! quantum mortalia pectora caecae 
Noctis habent. 



N. B. As it is not unlikely that the rage for illustrating 
may extend itself even to the present volume, I have carefully 
inserted two very copious Indexes, in order to facilitate the 
Collector in this New Caco'ethes. 



CfjaUograplnmania. 



BOOK THE FIRST. 



CfcaUograpfjimanta. 



BOOK THE FIRST. 



Tribus Anticyris caput insanabile, 

Horace, 

Collector's head I will ensure, 
Three Anticyrce would not cure. 



JliRE print collecting first broke out, 

Your Cits knew what they were about, 

Behind the counter standing smug, 

As in a blanket's stow'd a bug, 

They thought not then of Hollars, Passes, 

Or Faithornes (a) ; no such silly asses, 



(«) The personages above-mentioned were very celebrated hand- 
B2 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Auctioneer's Poetic Prose. 



But stock to Cocker's rule of yore, 
Which states that two and two make four, 
"Whereby they well solv'd mundane itches, 
By filling pockets of their breeches. 
And never knew what 'twas to hear 
The glib tongue of an Auctioneer, 
Who now-a-days in fibbing mood 
Of gallows makes an hanging wood ; 
And paints a stagnant ditch to be, 
Fine stream of limpid purity ; 



lers of the burin. Of the Passes, who were Hollanders, there was a 
family, consisting of Simon, Crispin, William, and Magdahna, 
all of whom were engravers, and flourished during the reign of 
James the First. Hollar, whose industry was almost without a 
parallel, lived during the reigns of Charles the First and Second, 
while Fait home displayed his matchless glossy stroke during the 
period of the Commonwealth. The major part of the productions 
of these respective artists are very rare, and produce high prices. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Auctioneer's Poetic Prose. 



In short vows ev'ry thing- uncouth, 

Till Going: — Gone : — knocks clown Untruth (b) ; 



(b) The late Mr. Chr — st — e was most renowned for the fluency 
of his tongue, a convincing proof of which the above instance will 

fully make manifest, the facts being as follow: Mr. C 

had a dwelling to dispose of, situated at some distance from 
Town, which was any thing but picturesque, as a gibbet was in 
view, while a miserable ditch skirted the garden. In the course 
of his flourishing description, he literally denominated the former 
a beautiful Hanging Wood, while the latter was transmogrified 
into a fine meandring stream of water, which, together with 
many other flights of poetic prose, so completely worked upon the 
mind of a gentleman present, that without having visited the pre- 
mises he became the purchaser. I leave to the reader to form an 
opinion of his astonishment on viewing the spot in question. The 
Auctioneer's rhetoric proved however of no effect, as the 

gentleman ultimately compelled Mr. C to resell the mansion, 

with all its concomitant beauties. Neither was this gentleman ever 
surpassed in the essential art of picture puffing: one instance of 
which I cannot help recording, having been present upon the oc- 
casion. A painting, possessing no one attribute that could entitle 
it to commendation, being put up, and no individual feeling a 
relish for the lot, our auctioneer, in order to palm it if possible 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Origin of Catalogus. 



For of all Tradesmen none's so glib, 
As Auctioneer at telling fib. 



Yet why thus from my theme digress, 
In proper place I shall lay stress 
On Pulpit Monarchs : — therefore now, 
'Fore hero of my tale I bow, 
With Chalcographians wond'rous dasher, 
In time of yore dubb'd, Haberdasher (c) ; 
Yclepp'd in prints an Astrologus, 
And nam'd sage Mister Catalogus ; 



upon the company, expressed himself in the following terms : 
" It wants nothing but a touch of the Promethean Jire to dart 
" from the canvas and fall a-bidding." 

(c) Whether any personal allusion be intended by selecting an 
individual of the above trade, the writer leaves the Chalcographi 
manians to discover. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Foundation of the Mania. 



When Cit he well knew how to wheedle, 
O'er thread, tape, bobbin, silk, and needle, 
Could sport with dame a joke, to win 
Her custom, on a corking pin ; 
And with true puritanic face, 
Avouch'd his button^ good and lace; 
From which such profits were acquired, 
As gain'd all comforts he desir'd ; 
And made him thus turn staunch projector, 
Of Chalcography grand Collector ; 
Whereby his thoughts, like modern Plato, 
Of each Lot rare teem'd with the fate O ! 
Enamour'd thus my Knight became, 
And cherish'd print-collecting fame (d). 



(d) Licet superbus ambuhs •pecuniae,, 
Fortuna non mutat genus. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Foundation of the Mania. 



One eve — portentous was the day, 
While soaking with a friend his clay, 
Behind the door hung hock of bacon, 
Whereof that noon he had partaken - t 
Which was in glass reflected seeij, 
That o'er the chimney hung I ween, 
When Catalogus glowing hot, 
And seizing, fancy-hr'd, the pot, 
Exclaim' d without a word of stricture, 
" My friend, my friend, Oh ! there's a picture (e) ; 



(e) That this circumstance did occur to a tradesman, the 
writer most solemnly declares, and that from the moment he 
beheld the reflected Hock of Bacon, he became a red-hot Collec- 
tor ; his first purchase being a most vile copy of Rubens' cele- 
brated picture of the Tribute Money. This mania was ultimately 
attended with very disastrous consequences, as the individual 
alluded to was in the end reduced from a state of comparative 
affluence to absolute beggary. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



John Bull's Opinion of the Arts. 



" A work like this I'd money stake on, 
" And everlasting gorge on bacon :" 

Mine host who dealt in butter, cheese, 
And eggs, then lolling at his ease, 
Exclaim'd — " For cart-load as I live, 
'.' Of picture trash I would not give, 
" To hang each chamber's walls around, 
" Of Single Gloucester cheese a pound. 
" If I for flesh of hog feel itch, 
" I've always ready well-cur' d flitch, 
* Or ven I flesh and blood wou'd see, 
" There's vife, and daughter Margery : 
" And as for paintings of green fields, 
" With streams and all the country yields, 
" To my mind picture ne'er excels, 
" Sweet Islington and Bagnigge Wells'"' 



10 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Praiseworthy Indignation. 



A slur thus thrown upon the art, 
Thrill'd Catalogus to the heart ; 
Who thus held converse with himself: — 
" Shall I with purse o'erstock'd with pelf (f), 
" And instinct of the higher class, 
" Herd still with such an arrant ass ? 
" Forbid it bobbin, tape, and lace, 
" I'll quit the city, drudging- place ; 
" And henceforth bid such dolts defiance, 
" Leaguing with Auctioneers and Science." 
With mind thus fiVd, the just reflector 
Of bold Achilles fam'd or Hector, 
Our bobbin knight friend Blue-mould quits, 
Resolv'd to bid adieu to cits : 
So strait to Haberdasher blade, 
Good-will is sold and stock in trade ; 

( f ) Fortuna nimium quern fovet stultumfacit. 



]i00 K i. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 11 

The Hero's Person described. 

When fraught with no one germ of pity, 

Great Catalogus leaves the city ; 

And to regale with Sales his heart, 

Takes lodgings near the Picture Mart, 

That he Don Quixote-like — may glance, 

And tilt at every lot — the lance ; 

Since bacon-hock had left a stamp, 

No earthly pow'r could ever damp. 

Thus Champion Catalogus see, 

'Scap'd bonds of Haberdashery; 

Fraught with a soul that might stand stilt on, 

And war with Shakspeare wage, or Milton ; 

Whose brain for grand pictorial flow, 

Might Raphael daunt — or Anyelo. 

For whoso dares look half so big 

As he who wisdom gleans from Pig ? 

But now his person to describe — 
He was in troth of dumpling tribe j 



12 CHALCOGRAPHIM ANIA. 

Costume of Catalogus. 

'Neath jazy white as fat of mutton, 
Was circle seen like mould of button ; 
Wherein were set two sharp black eyes, 
With grunters' vying for the prize ; 
Which o'er the cheeks of pimply red, 
Shone knobs of jet on coral bed ; 
While features spoke conception dense ; 
Replete with all— save common-sense : 
The stomach like the face was round, 
True type of Aldermanic mound, 
His thighs were short ; each leg was thin, 
And club-foot base to either pin. 

As for his garb, cock'd hat he wore, 
Like beaver gilt o'er hatter's door (y) ; 



(g) Lest the reader should erroneously be led to infer that the 
head-covering in question is after the modern fashionable shape, 
it is but needful that I should place matters in a just point of 
view ; therefore, I beg leave to acquaint him that the beaver of our 



book i. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. IS 

Costume of Catalogus. 

The coat was blue, of full dimension, 

His vest of silk brac'd stomach's tension : 

For brigs he wore choice glossy satin 

Whose breech had well ta'en Whitbread's vat in, 

While mottled worsted cloth'd each leg, 

That look'd in Hessian boot a peg ; 

Nor treat friend reader with disdain, 

Though mention' d last — gold-headed cane ; 

Which ranks with Doctor of Degree, 

The half procurement of his fee, 

Since sconce with him is oft as thick 

And brainless as companion stick : 

Wherefore with Esculapian bane, 

'Tis head 'gainst stick, and stick 'gainst brain. 

Arm'd cap-a-pee thus view my Knight, 

On Hobby dare the Auction fight, 



Catalogus is framed after the fashion of those gilt gingerbread 
hats which are annually strung up at Bartholomew Fair. 



14 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

The Hero's Invocation. 

With gold he vows the palm to win 

By bidding" bold, through thick and thin ; 

A name, a name, he must ensure, 

And burns to rank Great Connoisseur (h)> 

Not Alexander, Caesar, Boney, 

Ambition holds so much a crony ; 

As Catalogus sought to view, 

His name enroll'd with prime Vertu. 

" Ah !" would he cry ; — " could I but boast, 
" A Musgrave's (i) fame, though now a ghost, 
" Was I not as I am, a stranger 
" To deep intricacies of Granger, 



(h) Digito monstrari et dicier hie est. 

PERSIUS. 

(i) The foundation of S— r W— 11— m M— sgr— v— 's collec- 
tion was the purchase of the stores of Mr. Throsby, the historian of 
Leicester, which were procured for a very mediocre price ; where- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 15 

The Hero's Invocation. 

" But Caulfield-like (j) who claims oblation, 
" Was vers'd in godlike Illustration, 
" Of Burnet, Clarendon, and Pennant (k), 
11 Then Wisdom's mansion I should tenant ; 
" And claim perhaps the envied thanks, 
" Of thrice renown'd Sir Joseph Banks. 



as at the sale of the M — sgr — ve effects by R — ch — rds — n, they 
produced the most enormous sums. 

(J) This personage, concerning whom more will be said in the 
progress of the poem, is very justly esteemed one of the best 
judges of old portraits now living. 

(Jc) As it is more than probable that this volume may fall into 
the hands of many individuals unconnected with Chalcographima- 
nian pursuits,! think it necessary to state that the Mania has for 
many years existed among collectors of illustrating the four above- 
mentioned works with portraits and views ; the volumes in question 
being either interleaved with folio paper, or else inlaid upon sheets 
of the largest atlas size, in order to admit decorative prints of all 
dimensions, without being compelled to double them. 



16 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. B00 i 

The Hero's Invocation. 

" ! for a J — ff — ys' potent brain, 

" The sound profundity of Th— ne, 

" A It — ch — ds — n's immortal glow, 

" Capacious scull of M — It — no ; 

" Or that I had the mazes trod, 

" Of sly C — In — ghi, or great D — dd ; 

" With Gr — v — s in cunning- coald keep pace, 

" And vie with S — m — co, Smith (I), or St — ce ; 

" Knew like a N — ch — Is (m), print and book, 

" Or had the keenness of Tr — ph — k (n), 



(/) Few persons connected with the printselling trade are more 
deserving approbation than Mr. T. Sm — th, whose assiduous re- 
search into every thing connected with the antiquities of our 
metropolis, justly entitle him to the applause of every Topogra- 
phical Collector, independent of which, as the father of a family, 
his conduct is deserving the warmest commendation. 

(m) This most respectable individual is allied to the niece of the 
late Aid — rm — n B — yd — 11, who is herself a great portrait col- 
lector ; indeed, so uuiv&rsally is the integrity of Mr. N— ch — Is 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 17 

The Hero's Invocation. 

« OfN—rf—k's B—t (o) claim'd the skill, 
" That gave poor St — w — rt bitter pill j 



established among the trade, that in case any variance occurs in 
affairs connected with bookselling, both parties are usually satis- 
fied by nominating Mr. N. as umpire, whose fiat is deemed at 
all times conclusive. Far different however was the conduct 
of another bookseller named N — c — 11, who has long since been 
a bankrupt, and was indebted for his first rise in the world 
to the following circumstance : S~r J— hn Ing— lby, of R — pi — y 
castle, who was residing in Switzerland at the period alluded to, 
had a very extensive and valuable library of the choicest old litera- 
ture, which the B— r — n— t's steward, not conceiving of any value, 
took uponhimself without consulting his absent master, to dispose 
of to the last mentioned Mr. N. who, in exchange, furnished 
the library with modern works, to the no small discomfiture of 
S — r J— hn, who found upon his return to England that all the 
Black Letter Lore was non est inventus. 

(«) This bookseller had the good fortune to purchase, by mere 
chance, a unique tract from the press of Caxton, not mentioned 
by Ames, or any other typographic. The subject of this curious 
specimen was a Latin oration of the Duke of Burgundy of that 
aera, upon his investiture with the Order of the Garter. Mr. 
Tr — ph — k caused fac-similes of the type to be cast, and then 
C 



18 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

The Hero's Invocation. 

" Or rank'd with D—rd — s (p) cutting* blade, 
" That rarely trounc'd bookselling trade. 



had a few copies struck off, which he sold at good prices, after 
realizing a round sum by the original specimen. 

(o) The above man, whose butcher-like person is the precise 
type of his mental endowments, which rank upon a par with those 
of the b — e creation, was for a series of years the companion of 
and caterer for the D — ke of N — rf — Ik, nor did his grace scruple 
to visit this dealer, when immured within the walls of the Fleet 
prison ; there is however nothing very astonishing in this predi- 
lection, as he no less made a crony of the late St-— n — y B — w — s, 
of Str — thm — re renown, who paraded the rules of the Bench for 
a series of years. This B — t procured a large sum of money 
from St — w— rt the Auctioneer, upon a collection of works, 
which when disposed of did not net the stim advanced by several 
hundreds, notwithstanding which the creditor has in vain sought 
to recover the amount, B — t putting off payment by the 
litigious expedient of removing the action from court to court, so 
that it is more than probable the Auctioneer at length harassed 
out, will relinquish his claim altogether. To this circumstance we 
may subjoin another illustrative of this man's character. He had bar- 
gained for a book with Fl— y— r of the Strand, who possessed two 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 19 

■ "■■ a 
The Hero's Invocation. 

" Nor leas renown'd among" the Quorum, 

" Well vers'd in costume— — T — mmy C — r — m. 

" Come and illume me J — cky Sc — tt ; 

" Who cross'd the Tweed not worth a jot: 

" With scarce a kelt to shield poor breech, 

" Well arm'd with arrogance and itch. 



copies of the work in question, one being in much finer condition 
than the other. B — t however, not choosing to give the sum 
required for the best, paid for the inferior copy, but on conveying 
his purchases to the hackney-coach, took especial care to carry 
the highest prized volume in lieu of that which he had actually 
paid for ; nor could the bookseller ever procure the smallest re- 
muneration. 

(p) This Irish Catholic collector, whose relationship to a late 
M — rch— ness, procured him for a period the countenance of the 
M — rq-s of B- ck — ugh- -m, after trafficking in pi— s, editing 
the Or — cle newspaper, in conjunction with P — t — r St — w — rt, 
buying and selling books and prints, and lastly, ^irag paper kites, 
that is to say, carrying on a promissory note traffic, was at 
length compelled to retire from the gay scenes of the metropolis, 
and assume a false appellation, leaving his name upon the ledgers 

c 2 



20 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

The Hero's Invocation. 

" And come of Scotia's race, another 
" JB — kb — nd — g Bill, the former's brother 
" Their glowing feats, 0! let me sing, 
" That make the Auction chambers ring. 
" Since more or less they both extend, 
" To me their aid, and prove the friend :" 

Thus Catalogus sagely spoke, 
Burning to burst the pond'rous yoke 
Of Ignorance, that bound his brain, 
In dull Boeotia's leaden chain : — 
With inspiration fraught, he hies, 
And volumes four of Granger buys ; 
Granger — whose biographic page, 
Hath prov'd for years so much the rage ; 



of numerous dealers, who, to the present hour, have just cause to 
regret their connection with this universal empiric, who saved his 
Bacon by sojourning at Ham. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 21 

Engraving and Wood Cuts. 

That scarce one book its portrait graces, 
Torn out alas ! each author's face is (q). 

My Hero reads, and thinks, and reads, 
As future Chalcographian deeds 
His brain with mad'ning frenzy fire; 
" For prints ;" he cries, " I burn, expire ! 
" Ah give me portraits good or bad, 
" To physic fancy running mad ; 
" Impressions bright, or if rariss. 
" Impressions dull wont come amiss (r) ; 



(q) The shameful practice of mutilating old books, which 
continued unabated for a series of years, has at length subsided, 
the generality of collectors being now just as eager to restore the 
heads to their mutilated works, as they were formerly eager to 
tear them from the volumes in question. 

(r) I cannot better evince the comparative value of prints, ac- 
cording to the state of the impressions than by instancing a small 
portrait of the Marchioness of Buckingham, of the period of 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Engraving and Wood Cuts. 



" Nor be forgot choice wooden cut, 

" Of Skelton or the Cut-purse slut (s) ; 

" Cost what they may, I must possess 'em, 

" They are my idols, good heav 'n bless 'em (?).' 



James the Ffrst, engraved by Magdalena Passe, a common speci- 
men of which is not worth Jive shillings ; whereas a fine head 
from the same plate will bring ten guineas, and if a proof could 
be produced it would in all probability realize twenty. 

(s) I now deem it necessary to remark that my wonder has uni- 
formly been excited upon inspecting illustrated Grangers, to ob- 
serve heads inserted which in all probability did not bear a trace 
of the personages whom they are stated to represent ; that a writer 
so competent should therefore have enrolled these abortions upon 
his biographic page is wonderful. In addition however to such 
pretended likenesses as Selman the pickpocket, Nell Rummin 
the ale-wife, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, Bull and Farnham 
the weavers, and countless others, I shall quote two cases where 
the portrait of one man is assigned as the resemblance of an- 
other; instance Caxton and Pinson, the printers, the former 
being the likeness of an Italian poet, and the latter a copy of a 
folio wood-cut, representing a foreign man of literature. 

(/) Sifovet in terris rider et Heraclitus. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 23 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 



Great Granger read huge Bromley's text (u) : 
True Cataloguing lore came next ; 
Whose page renown'd was read sans ceasing, 
Fell cacoethes thus increasing : 
In due succession Strutt was bought (v), 
With sacred Chalcography fraught ; 
Prom Finiguerra's graven brass * 
(Which W — db — rn vowed naught could surpass f , 



(u) This volume, although incomplete, is a proof of infinite per- 
severance and industry, and well deserves the commendation of 
every Chalcographimanian. 

(v) Strutt's Dictionary of Engravers, which now produces a 
very exorbitant price, is a specimen of infinite ingenuity ; indeed, 
all the productions of this writer are of invaluable utility for the 
curious matter they contain, and are very justly appreciated by 
the antiquarian and every lover of Vertu. 

* The discovery of Chalcography, like many other useful arts, 
proved to be the mere result of chance. Thomas Finiguerra, a native 



24 . CHALCOGRAPHIMAMA. 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 



And D — bd — n great Typographist, 
Who on this subject did insist ; 



of Florence, who was a goldsmith, and flourished in the fifteenth 
century, is the personage handed down to posterity, as the 
original discoverer of engraving, which is said to owe its origin to 
one of the following circumstances, though the latter appears to 
me as heing by far the most natural, and consequently bears the 
greater resemblance to truth. Finiguerra it is staled, chanced to 
let a piece of copper fall into some melted sulphur, where the ink 
with which he had filled the incisions made upon the plate left the 
impression of his work upon the mineral in question. The other 
narrative states that a washerwoman happened to leave some 
damp linen upon a plate whereon the artist had been working, 
when a faint impression upon the cloth happening to meet Fini- 
guerra's observation, he tried the experiment on moistened paper, 
the satisfactory result of which led him to prosecute the Chalco- 
graphian Art. 

t The W— db— rn family, consisting of four personages, which 
now blazes in every branch of the pictorial art, owes its origin to 
a sweeper of the streets, from which main stock has sprung this 
enlightened Quartetto, whose respective avocations are as fol- 
low : Printselling, Book-vending, Picture-dealing, and Frame- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 25 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 



Whereas the burthen of his song, 

In lieu of Riyht throughout was Wrong (w) : ) 



making. I have only to add that the Merchant of Old Canvas is 
much indebted for his rise to the patronage of the Duke of 
Hamilton and Earl Fitzwilliam. 

N. B. The Chaicographian brother pretends that he can 
ascertain the precise age of paper by its taste. 

(w) In order to introduce the present note, I must acquaint my 
readers that Mr. D — bd — n, towards the termination of the first 
volume of Ames's Typography, at page 363, acquaints the public by 
way of supplementary note extraordinary, that he has made a most 
wonderful discovery in the Chaicographian art, which be intro- 
duces to notice in the following words : 

" At page four it has been asserted, on the authority of Huber, 
" that there is no engraving extant with ihe name of Finiguerra 
" inscribed upon it. In a conversation with Mr. Woodburn, jun. 
" of St. Martin's lane, (whose, choice collection of early engravings 
" and antiquarian knowledge of the art are equally conspicuous) 
" and mentioning to him this dictum of Huber, I was not a little 
" delighted, as well as surprised by his shewing me the original 



26 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 



E'en to engravers doom'd by fate 
To send forth prints of recent date : 



" engraving, of which the opposite plate is a fac-simile, reduced to 
*' the exact proportion of one-half. Mr. Woodburn conjectures 
" with good reason, that the reversed initials XII were intended 
" for Thomas Finiguerra Incidebat or Incisit. I need hardly in- 
" form the reader of the singular value of the original, which is in 
" all probability unique, uor of the spirit and expression of the 
" composition itself, considering the very early period of the art in 
" which it was executed. Although such an ornament may be 
" considered somewhat misplaced in a work which treats princi- 
" pally of Typography and Literature, I could not resist the 
" temptation of gratifying the public with so important an acqui- 
" sition to the History of Engraving." 

The subject represented in the engraving thus cited, is Hercules 
destroying the hydra, which was purchased by W — db — n, of 
Thane the printseller. This most flourishing account was of 
course productive of vast effect upon the minds of green-horn 
collectors ; but I must candidly avow, that from the very first mo- 
ment I glanced upon the copy in question, I felt assured that its 
original was not produced from the burin of Finiguerra. Thus 
matters continued until the copy of an undoubted engraving by 



27 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 



One liking will another hatch 
Itching augments — the more you scratch : 
Thus Pilkington on painters came (x), 
Increasing bright pictorial flame ; 



Finiguerra, preserved at Paris, made its appearance, thus setting 
the matter at rest ; in addition to which I have since been favour- 
ed with the inspection of a still more beautiful specimen of this 
rare engraver's art in the possession of Mr. Ottley, a gentleman of 
refined taste, which affords the most incontestible proof that the 
boasted unique of D— bd — n is nothing more than mus in pice. 
During the progress of the B— bl — m— nia, this writer thought fit 
to level his shafts at Mr. G— rd— n— r, the bookseller, of Pall 
Mall, whose singularity of character is perfectly well known : 
that attack was manfully repelled to the discomfiture of the typo- 
graphist, who, fired no doubt with this Finiguerra specimen of 
Chalcography, thought fit to issue into the printselling mart, 
which is already overstocked, a series of portraits, possessing but 
little, if any claim to the patronage of the Collector. 

(#) This work, which did not originally display any great de- 
gree of acumen, is even rendered less worthy of commendation, in 
consequence of the annotations of Mr. Fuseli, who edited the last 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 

And Oxford too his mind acquainting-, 
With Anecdotes of British Paintiny (y), 
Whilst of Enyr avers volume shrew'd, 
The soul of knight still more imbu'd; 



edition. With respect to the disquisition on the arts written by 
Barry, and which contains much unjustifiable reprehension of his 
present Majesty's judgment, in countenancing Mr. West as an able 
painter; it is not universally known that this objectionable part, 
which proved highly detrimental to Barry, proceeded from the 
pen of Peter Pindar, otherwise Doctor W — Ic — t,*who never 
made known to Mr. Barry the substance of what he had inserted 
prior to the work being issued from the press. I should in this 
place deem myself extremely remiss, were I not to express in the 
warmest terms my respect for our Sovereign's taste, who, unlike 
his ancestor George the Second, when he thought fit to turn his 
back upon Hogarth, has never failed to evince the most pointed 
predilection for the arts, and has uniformly extended his patronage 
to every skilful practitioner of painting. 

(y) The above nobleman, who may be termed one of the first 
founders of the Chalcographian dynasty, was nevertheless no 
particular friend to genius, which his conduct to Chatterton suffi- 
ciently testifies ; neither does he appear to have been mora mind- 



B0OK i. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 29 

Granger, Bromley, Pilkington, Strutt, &c. 

With ardour to attain the goal, 

And stamp true Mania on his soul. 

He had fierce ague of the wits, 

Assail'd by cold or burning fits ; 

By day warm fancy all-creative, 

On nothing ran but illustrative ; 

By night his genius on the spin, 

In dreams brought Strutt and specimen ; 

In fine, hot brain cou'd ne'er pass stricture, 

On aught save portrait, plate or picture. 

Thus having plainly shown to sight, 
Foundation of mine hero's flight, 



ful of those persons who bad every claim to bis consideration, 
since Kirget, the printer of ail his lucubrations, which issued from 
the private press at Strawberry Hill, after assiduously serving him 
for nearly thirty years, was at his lordship's death turned adrift, 
with a paltry legacy ; whereas his French valcl was rendered com- 
fortable for life. 



30 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Chalcographimaniacs, &c. 

The noble furor of his mind, 

To turn Collector most refin'd; 

Enrolling name with Syk — s renown'd 

Who for old head paid seventy pound (z) ; 

Or Bl — ndf—rd's M — rq — s whose bright glow 

Spent thousands on Boccacio (a) : 



(z) The individual bere quoted, at the sale of S — r J — ms 
L — k — s prints, paid the above price for a portrait of Sir Henry 
Inglefield, engraved by Faithorne, which was not only a bad im- 
pression, but in very poor condition; and the same personage 
also paid nearly fifty pounds at Graves's sale for an equestrian 
print, representing the Earl of Oxford and Lord Southampton 
on horseback. 

(a) This specimen of typography, of which there are only two 
copies existing, was stolen from the Vatican at Rome during the 
Gallic depredations committed in that celebrated city. This 
extreme rarity is owing to the conduct of the then wearer of 
the tiara, who condemned the whole edition to be burnt, on 
account of the licentiousness which pervades the whole work. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA.. SI 

Chalcographimaniacs, &c. 

Or Sp — no — rs Earl who fought red hot, 
With M—rq — s for the self-same lot; 
Or B — 11 to Granger firmly knit (b), 
With daughter decking holy writ (c) : 



At this momentous epoch in the annals of auctioneering, the great 
competitorship was between the M — rq — s and E — 1 Sp — nc — r, 
who possesses one of the most classic libraries in the kingdom. 
The sum at which this copy of the Decameron was knocked down 
proved £.2260. 

Rarus enim fame sensus communis in ilia, 
Fortuna. 

JUVENAL. 

Our noble M — rq — s has also a most incurable itch for books of 
emblems, which he will purchase at any price, and in regard to 
himself, he certainly may rank as the Emblem of Death, with 
which stricture I will now wind up my comment. 

(b) As a collector for Granger, Mr. B — // deceased was very 
conspicuous ; but on the score of his liberality, more this depo- 
nent saith not. 

(c) The lady here adverted to, who is now chronicled with the 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Chalcographimaniacs, &c 



Or N — rf — k's Duke who plays bo-peep, 
With tradesman herding to buy cheap (d) ; 



dead, possessed during her terrestrial pilgrimage a most violent 
cacoethes for scriptural illustrations, in which pursuit she is now 
imitated by L — rd M — rk K — rr, respecting whose judgment more 
will be stated in the progress of my annotating pages. 

(d) No individual is more fond of increasing his collection than 
the nobleman above cited, who would no doubt drink a bottle of 
geneva with any two-penny printseller in order to purchase cheap. 
Having in a preceding note given specimensof his Graces friendly 
predilections, I shall here subjoin a further instance of Br — nt's 
upright mode of dealing, which was rendered pre-eminently con- 
spicuous in a public court of justice. The proof here advert- 
ed to, occurred before Sir James Mansfield, when St — ce the 
printseller, being interrogated as a witness, deposed to the follow- 
ing effect, when speaking as to Br — nt's character: " I am well 
" acquainted with Br — nt, who carries his books for sale in a 
" green bag, in order that he may pass for a lawyer. He one day 
" came to my house in this manner, with one volume of a work 
*' which he was desirous of selling, the book in question being in 
« very good condition. Now it so happened, my Lord Judge, that I 



book i. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 33 

Chalcographimaniacs, &c. 

Or M — rq — s B — th, well-known to fame ; 
And mother boasting- mutual flame (e) ; 



" had been at Wilson's, the bookbinder's, that very morning, and 
" had there seen the other volume of the work, which was worru- 
" eaten, and in a very bad state: in consequence of this, it occur- 
" red to me, that the book at the binder's was Br — nfs, where- 
" fore I demanded of him whether Mr. Wilson was not his binder ; 
" to which he replied in the affirmative, thus affording a convinc- 
" ing proof that this man was desirous of deceiving me by pro- 
" ducing the volume in good condition as a specimen of the work, 
" as, after payment, he could have referred me to Mr. Wilson 
" for the remaining volume, when I should have been the com- 
" plete dupe of his artifice. In consequence of this, I ordered my 
" maid to deny me at all times to the green bag man and his son, 
" whensoever they should intrude themselves at my door." 

(e) These noble personages are not only famed for their love of 
the Chalcographian Art, but are characterized by a spirit of 
liberality in accumulating their pictorial stores, which is deserving 
•f the most unqualified commendation. 



34 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Chalcographimaniacs, &c. 

Or B — te possess'd of Hogarth knowledge (f) ; 
M — I — ne renown'd at D — hv — ch College (g) ; 



(/) The particular predilection of the Marquis of B — te, who 
was the purchaser of Mr. B — Ws Granger, is for the productions 
of our pictorial satirist Hogarth, concerning whose genius and 
talents so much has been said by Messrs. John and Samuel Ireland, 
not to omit their predecessor Truster, whose work, descriptive of 
his plates, is now become very valuable. It would be highly in- 
decorous in me, were I to pass over the mention of this nobleman's 
taste and judgment, which are rendered conspicuous in every 
branch of his Chalcographian research. 

(g) I have been given to understand that this cumbersome com- 
mentator was in possession of a very curious manuscript relating to 
the stage, and the performers of the period of James the First, 
which was left to the College by Allen its founder. This theatric 
treasure was deposited in the above gentleman's hands by way of 
a loan, but from appearance it was more than probable the library 
of Dulwich would long continue divested of its just right. This 
circumstance brings to recollection the conduct of David Garrick, 
who, taking advantage of the stupidity which characterized the 
then Head of the College, procured from him all the rare 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 35 

Chalcograp hi maniacs, &c. 

Great Editor, whose leaden mace (7*), 
With pedant K — mb — e just keeps pace, 
Whose aitches and perverted room 
Shall stamp him A — s till day of doom (i). 



old Quarto Plays, for which invaluable store he decorated the 
Library with some modern gay bound works by way of an equit- 
able exchange. 

(h) The commentaries of this theatrical madman most forcibly 
remind me of the statutes at large, which are most tremendous in 
bulk, without possessing much internal acumen to compensate for 
the burthensome expenditure to which the purchaser of his 
lucubrations is necessarily subjected. 

(*) Our Thespian hero, who may well march hand in hand with 
the last mentioned annotator, has for a long series of years collect- 
ed theatrical rarities with the most indefatigable industry ; nor can 
it be denied that he has generally displayed a liberality of senti- 
ment in the prosecution of his mania, which redounds much to 
his credit. If we regard him in the light of a scholar, he most 

J) 2 



36 CHALC0GRAPH1MANIA. 

Chalcograpbimaniacs, &c. 

These form a list with more to gloss it, 

Not passing o'er the book-worm G — ss — t (j) : 

For slaves of Bibliomanian spell, 

Deserve my plaudits just as well ; 

As famous Chalcographian crew, 

Whose feats are noted thus to view. 



indubitably possesses classical acquirements ; but like many other 
schoolmen, by endeavouring to prove himself superior to others, 
he has over-leaped the boundaries of decency ; for 

our court you know is haunted, 

With a refined Traveller of Spain ; 
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 

That hath a mint of phrases in his brain ; 
One whom the music of his own vain tongue 
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

(J) This little gentleman, of whom I shall again have cause to 
speak in the course of my poem, was one of the most determined 
auction-goers, and from his ceaseless comments in favour of lots, 



book i. CHALCOGRAPH1MANIA. 37 

The Hero's Mental Extacy. 

With sages such as these to rank 
His name, till then a simple blank : 
Was now my hero's sole design, 
Who dubb'd Collectors all divine : 
With smatt'ring thus from books secur'd, 
At sales he 'longs to be enur'd ; 
So Auctioneer for pocket's prog, 

Sends Catalogus Catalogue. 

W T ith pride he wields the same in air, 
The hour of sale his only care ; 
Nor did our Wellington e'en quaff 
Delight so great with Jourdans staff ; 
It was to him a trophy great, 
Memorial of his envied state ; 



one would have imagined that he was pensioned by the Auctioneer; 
in short, it appeared as if nature had moulded his tongue into the 
shape of a pretty copy. 



38 CtfALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

The Hero's Mental Extacy. 

In being thus to Auction courted, 
An honour scarce to be supported : — 
In state like this he struts along, 
Unmindful of the passing throng ; 
With innate pride his feelings burn, 
Cane — Catalogue he waves in turn ; 
And takes his place as proud as Nero (h), 
Beside the chair of Hammer-hero : 

Thus far the Muse her tale hath told, 
And Catalogus fame enroll'd \ 
She now awhile for breath must pause, 
In expectation of applause : — 
Her second flight with care shall trace, 
The witching pathos — winning grace— 
Of each grand flourisher of hammer, 
Who tells with brazen front — a crammer : 

(k) Maximus in minimis. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 39 



Catalogus in good Hands. 



I would speak plainer by the bye ; 
If 'twere not vulgar to write — iae : 
Thus Catalogus thron'd in state, 
I leave to Auctioneers and Fate ; 
To better hands I can't consign him, 
So for the present — I resign him. 



END OF BOOK THE FIRST. 




iBoofc tit ^econtJ, 



BOOK THE SECOND. 



On commence par etre dupe, on finit par etre fripon. 

Of folly some are first the slaves, 
Who end career by turning knaves. 



AUCTIONEERS, &C. 

ALL hail, propitious season hail, 
" Crimp'cl leaves are wafted by the gale ; 
" Hail Autumn ;" cried my gallant knight : — 
" For print sales 'gin by candle-light : 
" The drenching rain from spout now sputters, 
" And mud in tides rolls down the gutters ; 
" To me more sweet that Summer's sun, 
*' Bereft of evening Auctions' fun : 



44 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

R — ch — rds — n. 

" The town is full, and day by day, 

" Sale follows Sale in proud array ; 

" The Auctioneer begins his reign, 

" And I now grace the bidding train ; 

" No sound so sweet as when upon 

" My lot, falls hammer, with — Gone, Gone (a).' 

To take these heroes in succession, 
As senior of our grand procession ; 
Lo ! R — ch — rds — n shall grace my lays (b), 
So worthy Catalogus' praise ; 



(a) Magno conatu, magnets nugas. 



(6) The dealer and auctioneer whose feats I now discuss, is a 
very good-hearted honest man, to whom portrait collectors and 
illustrators are under infinite obligation for the numerous copies 
from old and rare portraits which he has ushered into publicity. 
Neither is C— If— Id less to be commended for such copies as Sir 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 45 

R — ch— rds— n. 

Since copies he hath publish' d fair, 
Of prints unique and portraits rare ; 
To satisfy Collector's itch, 
And make blank leaves of Granger rich : 
For he who such an errant fop is, 
To turn up snout at sight of copies ; 
And in his Granger mighty huffer, 
Originals will only suffer ; 
Must ev'ry niggard thought unbend, 
And mind make up huge sums to spend ; 
Yet let him squander what he will, 
One third of Granger he can't fill,. 
Wherefore one page in ev'ry three, 
Alas ! a yawning blank must be (c). 



John Hotham, with a string of others too numerous for insertion 
in the present volume. 

(c) Every individual possessing Ihe slightest knowledge of 



46 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

R — ch — rds — n. 

Our R — ch — rds — n in rostrum well, 

On lot that's choice knows how to dwell (d) : 

His mind is honest — nature good, 

Yet sometimes, be it understood, 

He can grow hot like other men, 

And woe betide his carcase then, 

Who rashly dares to brave his choler, 

For me, I would not for a dollar : 

Witness when once at fam'd Knock-Out (e), 

'Twixt R — ch — rds — n and Gr — v — s was rout ; 



illustrating Granger's Biographical History, must allow the justice 
of the above remark, for so numerous have been the collectors 
for this work, that the market is completely cleared of portraits 
possessing any claim to scarcity, independent of which such heads 
as are procurable have more than quadrupled their value within 
the last twenty years. 

(d) It gave me great pleasure to find R -ch — rds — n was the 
auctioneer selected to catalogue and dispose of the collections of 



book ii. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 47 

R — ch — rds — n. 

When former dubbing' latter oaf, 
Hurl'd quick at sconce a quartern loaf, 
So hard ; that had it come with noddle, 
In rueful contact, Gr — v — 's, poor coddle, 



Sir William Musgrave and Mr. Tight, as they no doubt proved 
extremely lucrative to the vender. 

(e) As the present term may not be generally understood, I 
shall in the most laconic way possible explain this chicanery of 
the printselling trade. When a Knock Out is decided upon by a 
select number of printsellers, it is agreed between them that who- 
ever begins bidding for any lot is not to be opposed by the others 
leagued of the party ; wherefore as all corapetitorship is thus in a 
great measure done away, the property falls an easy prey to the 
junto, and thus the poor proprietor is fleeced of half the sum his 
prints would have produced had every dealer acted honourably. 
The sale being over, these honest gentlemen repair with their lots 
to an adjoining ale-house, where they resell the property among 
themselves, which is technically termed knocking out, and what- 
soever additional sum is thus acquired, this gracious set expend 
upon beefsteaks and a copious booze. 



48 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

R — ch — rds — n. 

In house with head bound up had been, 
So dire is passion — naughty sin (f). 
Yet plain I'll speak and prove commender, 
Of this same veteran portrait-vender ; 
Had old minx Fortune acted fair, 
And for deserts dealt out due share ; 
From trade ere this he had been steering, 
Nor still prov'd Knight of Auctioneering. 
And such reward he merits well, 
And would have tasted, if foul spell, 
Had not entrapp'd him in the net, 
By wily Scottish cunning set (g) : 



(/) The foregoing couplets being sufficiently explanatory of 
the event in question, it only remains for me to assure the reader 
that the circumstance may be relied upon as a matter of fact, 
which neither of the parties if applied to could have the effron- 
tery to deny. 

(g) Master ./ — Jinny of Noble Author renown, was by no means 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 49 



Chr — st — e. 



Which hath inveigTd many more, 
As I'll rehearse in rhyming lore, 
Ere Chalcographian race is run, 
And Catalogus' story done. 

In classics vers'd, with manners meek, 
Nor less with Latin stor'd than Greek (h) ; 
Lo ! Chr — st — e view the hammer wielding, 
As Square does stick, pourtray'd by Fielding ; 



backward in letting R — ch — rds — n into a good thing, whose 
pocket has smarted to the tune of several hundreds, by the preda- 
tory incursions of our Northern Adventurer. 

(A) The personage now before us, who owes his origin to a very 
expert parent, u the most classical of our auctioneering fraternity, 
having been gifted with scholastic education, that has inducted 
him to a knowledge of the Greek and Roman writers. As a 



50 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Chr— st— e. 

He treads in shoes of great Papa, 
And tells alike — untruths comme fa : 
For Auctioneer would give emetic, 
That was not vers'd in prose-poetic ; 
In fine it must till day of doom, 
Of pulpit rank the great heir-loom. 
Still though I've learned riam'd my knight, 
With ignorance I've known him fright 
Such share of sense as I possess : 
Witness when once he laid great stress, 
As porter held up lot before us, 
A picture bright of painter Flofus, 
Which knight with acumen quite keen, 
Pronounc'd chef d'ceuvre — Florentine ; 



vender he ranks very fair, and in private life his character will 
stand the test of the most minute enquiry. 



book u. CHALCOGRAPH1 MANIA. 51 

Chr— st— e. 

Whereas said artist void of blemish, 
Was call'd the Raphael of the Flemish ; 
'Twas Francis Florus name no doubt, 
Turn'd Ch — st — 's senses inside out (i). 
At sale of Bishop's stores — of Ely (j), 
Friend Catalogus bled quite freely ; 
Thus easing- well lin'cl purse of wad, 
Since Going, Going — claim' d his Nod. 



(i) I must confess that I felt no small share of surprise on wit- 
nessing this egregious blunder from a person of education, and 
more particularly as the father of our Auctioneer had a knowledge 
of the several schools of painting at his tongue's end : in order 
therefore to avoid such mistakes in future, I would advise Mr. 
C to make Pilkington his pulpit companion. 

(J) Among other lucky windfalls that have come under the 
hammer of this personage, the collection of the late Bishop of 
Ely was not the least in magnitude, and consequently productive 
of considerable profit. 

E 2 



52 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

K — ng and L — ch — e. 

Fine Granger thus with stores he dress'd, 
While Clarendon due share impressed ; 
Whereby this truth appears quite plain 
If bidder was in mirthful vein, 
To common sense 'tis render' d clear, 
As much delight felt auctioneer ; 
Who profits gaining chuckled gaily ; 
So thus o'erjoy'd I'll bid him vale. 

To yield our Catalogus treat, 
Puffed up with pride and vain conceit ; 
In Auction's guise I next array, 
The King-street K—ng and friend L — ch — e ; 
Who well nigh robb'd of sense the grain, 
That stocks my Chalcographian's brain ; 
As they the wond'rous stores unlock'd, 
And down to ardent bidders knock'd, 
Within their well attended room, 
A Farmer's hoards and eke a Coombe : 



BOOK „. CHALC0GRAPHIMAN1A. 53 

K — ng and L — ch — e. 

Collection most renown'd of Reed, 

Devoted to Shaksperian creed : 

And Tooke who butted with sharp Home, 

'Gainst Ministers, like Unicorn ; 

And with Big-wigs made hurly-burley, 

Diversions printing — nam'd of Purley : 

From wonders such as these 'tis plain, 

With Catalogus K — ng must reign, 

'Mongst pulpit tribe that makes oration, 

A monstrous brilliant constellation (k). 



(k) This brace of Hammertonians have no cause to complain of 
Ihe frowns of fortune, having been honoured with the disposal of 
the most famous Chalcographian hoards; witness the sales of those 
famous collectors Farmer and Coombe, which brought immense 
sums, together with the property of Mr. Reed, who, as a com- 
mentator on Shakspeare, has in many instances handed his name 
down as a literary character with honour to posterity. In addi- 
tion to these must be named the library of the late John Home 
Toohe, who figured most conspicuously as a political character 



54 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

L— gh and S— th— by. 

Wherefore in hopes he long may blaze 
To others now I'll tune my lavs. 

With Catalugus hand in hand, 
To L — gh and S — th — by's in the Strand, 
I wend my way : — to fame well-known, 
Whose acts are grac'd with honour s zone, 
Since unlike some that might be quoted, 
For deeds unfair they are not noted (l)> 



during the North, Chatham, and Pitt administrations ; while his 
deep research as a scientific scholar is indelibly stamped on the 
annals of literature by the acumen displayed in his Diversions of 
Purley, than which perhaps a more learned production never 
issued from the press of this or any other country. 

(Z) If the abilities of these individuals in their vocation are not 
very prominent, their characters however are unimpeachable, 
being fair and honest dealers in all their transactions through life, 
as every one must allow who has had any concern with them. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 55 



L— gh and S — th — by. 



'Tis true this twain can't claim renown, 
Mere putter s-up and knockers-down ; 
Yet ne'ertheless all-bounteous fate, 
Hath dealt to them collections great, 
That won my Chalcographian s heart, 
Who ne'er yet fail'd to play his part : 
Witness the stores of All — n's vat 
Whose wit is like his brewing- — flat : 
A Tysons prints and medals rare (m), 
That made our Catalogus stare ; 
Like Hindoo running fearful muck (n), 
Or screaming pig that's newly stuck, 



(m) Mr. All — n, of hop-renowu, who is not only a buyer but a 
vender also, seems to collect for the express purpose of selling 
again. Far different from this was the conduct of the liberal Mr. 
Tys — n deceased, whose judgment was conspicuously displayed 
at the sale of his rare collection of prints and medals, which afford- 
ed a real treat to every lover and judge of the arts. 



56 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK II. 



L— sh and «— th— bv. 



The boards of Dog — D — nt—furioso 

At sight of hound — who Doloroso, 

l\ow weeps o'er false Shaksperian lore (o)> 

Which sprang from Maisterre Ireland's store ; 



(n) In the East Indies it frequently occurs that a native will 
chew laudanum to such an excess, that the most raging deliriuitt 
ensues ; in which frenzied state the afflicted party seizes the first 
weapon he can find, and rushing out with the gesticulations of 
fur}- imprinted on his visage, runs forward, and will stab any un- 
fortunate being that does not clear the way at his approach. Such 
is the explanation of Running a Muck, which terminates in death, 
as the sufferer proceeds till exhausted, when he drops down and 
expires, from the effect produced by this powerful deleterious 
drug. 

[o) The gentleman now figuring in our Chalcographimanian 
drama, must certainly have been afflicted at some period of his life 
with the hydrophobia, having evinced in a certain senatorial meet- 
ing the most rooted antipathy to the race of hounds : neither is 
he less acrimonious upon the subject of the Ireland forgeries, 
which he originally purchased, but growing weary of his acquisi- 
tion, brought them to the hammer, when the price bid was so 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 57 

L- — gh and S — th — by. 

Whose impudence deserves the rod, 
For having ap'd the muse's god (p). 
To Boucher praises must be pour'd, 
With Marquis Townshend's classic hoard ; 
While still to sweeten more the posset, 
Come books of dirty snarling G — ss-*-t ; 



trifling in comparison with what he had originally paid, that the 
property was bought in and now continues in Mr. D — 's keeping, 
who uever glances at this modern antique, without experiencing 
an emotion similar to that which results from the working of a 
plentiful dose of ipecacuanha. 

(p) It has frequently afforded me a matter of astonishment to 
think how this literary fraud could have so long duped the world, 
and involved in its deceptious vortex such personages as a Parr, 
Wharton, and Sheridan, not omitting Jemmy Boswell, of Johnsonian 
renown ; nor can I even refrain from smiling whensoever the vo- 
lumes of Malone and Chalmers, together with the pamphlets of 
Boaden, Wrtdron, Wyatt, and Philalethes, otherwise — Webb, Esq. 
chance to fall in my way. All this however verifies the words of 
Martial, when he says, Stultus labor est ineptiarum. 



58 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Ph_ 11— p _. 

Who after twenty years hard courting 1 , 
Procur'd an help-mate for disporting (qj. 
So much for Auction pedigree, 
Of S — th — by and companion L — gh. 

A Scot now booing to the great, 
His creatures lord's in selling state (r) ; 
Whose wither' d phiz you'll ever find, 
The portrait of his hungry mind ; 



(q) The three collections above noted came to the hammer of 
these auctioneers. As for the Doctor and his prime copies he cer- 
tainly must have possessed some unaccountable talisraanic charm 
to effect this inroad upon a wealthy lady's affections ; for as to 
the exterior form divine, he might well have exclaimed with 
Richard, " Why love forswore me in my mother's womb." 

(r) This auctioneer has two famous auxiliaries in D — dd and 
H — 11 — nd ; the former puffing and purchasing, while the latter, 
instead of flourishing off panegyrics, is contented to flourish the 
hammer, being denied the aid of finished enunciation, both by 
nature and a lack of scholastic acquirements. 



book a. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 59 

Ph_li_p_. 

While Dutch-pug like to sweeten life, 

Beside him view his vixen wife ; 

That breathes with raven's croak her spite, 

A most infuriate Belgic sprite ; 

That naught e'er suffers to go by, 

He ; finger always in the pye (s). 

'Twas here great Catalogus saw, 

Rare sights and clapp'd on them his claw. 

When Argyles Duke to sale resign'd, 

Delights of Chalcographian's mind ; 

And Udney's choice collection too, 

With Spencer s pass'd in grand review (t) ; 



(s) The lanky appearance of Ph—11— p— 's countenance is 
doubtless owing to the tongue and temper of his Dutch help-mate, 
who strictly verifies this old French proverb ; " La langue des 
" femtnes est leur epee, et elles ne la lament pas rouiller." 

(?) The sale of the above mentioned collections fell to the lot of 
the Auctioneer now under review. 



60 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Ph_n_p_. 

But what allur'd mine hero most, 
Was when fine proofs — bewitching host, 
Were brought the hammer's blow to share, 
Impressions matchless, bright, and rare; 
Which Ph — II — p — singing blithe Te Deum, 
Had chose for sale at great M — s—umj 
Whereas he should have borne to dwelling 
No more than duplicates for selling (u), 
But northern sense is ne'er in mist, 
And proofs we know to mill bring grist. 
While to Museum thus I'm led, 
Of D — gh—t — n something should be said ; 



(m) Th — ne having furnished Mr. Cracherode, who left his col- 
lection to the British Museum, with numerous prints, recognized 
the rare portrait of Doctor Moore, by Faithorne, when finding 
that he was outbid by W — db — rn the dealer, he made the cir- 
cumstance public. 



bo ok ii. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 61 

Ph-,11— p _. 

Who void of blushes stole at will, 

From all collections purse to fill ; 

Till Rembrandt's etching, prime landscape (v) f 

Call'd coach, brought D — gh — n into scrape, 

Who finding guilt will courage alter, 

On being prov'd a base defaulter ; 

Restor'd whate'er he still possessed, 

And thus the case was lull'd to rest. 



(v) D — gh — n the artist being countenanced by the Prince 
Regent, and on terms of intimacy with B — lo, who held a situation 
in the British Museum, procured admission whensoever he wished, 
under the plea of making copies of rare etchings ; instead of 
which his practice was to select the choicest prints he could find 
from Cracherode's collection in particular, with which he was in 
the habit of walking off. Among the valuable Chalcographie 
specimens thus procured, was the above-mentioned extra rare and 
fine etching known by the name of Coach, in consequence of 
one of those vehicles being introduced into the design. Of this 
print D — gh — n executed a precise copy, and then disposed of 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



St— w— rt. 



A second son of Scotia's isle, 
Now claims my Catalogus 1 smile, 
Whose mental attributes may be, 
In words condens'd no more than three, 
Wherefore he is— so wills it fate, 
Conceited — stupid — obstinate ; 
'Tis true he oft appalls with wonder, 
When hammer's blow re-echoes thunder, 
Thus what his elocution lacks, 
Is made good by tremendous whacks ; 



one of the impressions to W — db — rn as being an original, when 
the latter, anxious to ascertain the fact for a certainty, and well 
aware that there was one deposited in the Museum in Cracherode'$ 
bequest, he repaired thither for the purpose of comparing the im- 
pressions, but upon inspection of the folios, this coach landscape 
could not be found ; when a strict enquiry was instituted, the 
result of which proved a complete discovery of the depredations in 
question. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 63 

St— w— rt. 

Which oft from seat hath caus'd to jump, 
My knight, electrified by thump. 
O ! what a famous row was made, 
With Chalcographians and the Trade, 
When dainty lots of Lake deceas'd (w), 
Heroic bidders finely fleec'd : 
Or when with Chalcographian rage, 
He warr'd for Basioloyan page, 
Suppos'd from Fifes great Lord to come, 
Whereas I swear 'twas all an hum (x)> 



(w) Whatsoever may be wanting on the score of rhetorical 
tropes, such deficiency is amply compensated by the most 
liberal use of this vender's hammer, who, though from North of 
the Tweed, was not as I have before stated a competent match for 
the Norfolk Br^-nt. Sir James L — A: — 's effects, which were very 
numerous, and sold for high prices, were consigned to St — w — rt, 
who had no cause to complain of the result, which was extremely 
beneficial to his pocket. 

(x) Basiologia is a small folio, containing fine impressions of 



64 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

St— w— rt. 

No more belonging to that peer, 

Than Champagne's brew'd from hops, like beer ; 



many rare portraits by the Passes and others, of which volume 
very few indeed have made their appearance. The contents of 
the last that was sold by St— w- — rt, netted upwards of five hun- 
dred and fifty-five pounds ; and was universally supposed to have 
belonged to the Earl of Fife, well known to possess a copy ; but in 
this conjecture the Chalcographimanians labour under a most 
egregious error, as the volume in question, to my certain knowledge, 
is still in his lordship's library. 

Ml intra est oleam, nil extra est in noce duri. 

HOR. 

Some years back an imperfect copy of the Basiologia was pur- 
chased by a well-known bookseller, who is dubbed by his tribe 
with the significant appellation of Measter B — y — ns, for eighteen- 
pence, which he relinquished at the Knock Out for an advance of 
six pounds. This new purchaser then disposed of his acquisition 
for forty-five pounds the day after lie brought his bargain into the 
market; on which he conceived that he had outdone all former 
outdoings, but to his mortification ascertained when too late, that 
the next possessor procured two hundred and seventy guineas for 
the prints, within three days after his disposal of them. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 65 



D— dd. 



For reason cogent I will show, 
To prove that none this secret know ; 
Since sale, in hand, upon my life, 
I've had the voLUME/am'd of F—fe. 
Optics 'tis plain there's no deceiving 
Seeing and feeling is believing. 

Who would have thought that e'er a D — dd, 
Would rank with auction dons— a god, 



This auctioneer also disposed of a collection which was falsely 
said to belong to a foreign Marquis, whereas it was the property 
of M—j — r SI — gr — ve, who, possessing no Chalcographic 
knowledge, was completely imposed upon by a set of fawning 
scycophantic Italians, amongst whom one bearing the ludicrous 
appellation of Tom Punch, was not only the most prominent in 
adding to the collection, but also in puffing the lots during the 
period of the sale. It is merely necessary to add by way of 
proving the rascality of these foreigners, that the collection, con- 
sisting of German and Italian prints, which originally cost th* 



66 CHALCOGRAPHIMAXIA. 



D— dd. 



Still Catalogus bends the knee, 

And hails him — high sublimity. 

Yet though on stilts he now appears, 

If we retrace a few short years. 

We view him serving' out to many. 

In Lambeth Marsh prints at one penny. 

\s hich strung- in rows the hovel grac'd, 

W ith dust and cobwebs thick enehas'd (y). 

Not far from thence in Lambeth Road, 

Of P — h — 7- stands the known abode (z), 



Major several thousand pounds, did not after pavnient of custom- 
house duties realize as manv hundreds. 

(3/) Facts are rather stubborn things. The events above re- 
corded will stand the test of the most rigid scrutiny, and strongly 
display the wonderful vicissitudes that frequently attend upon 



man, 



.; This supercilious print-vender was originally an errand boy 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 67 



D— dd. 



With whom war Chalcographic rag'd, 
As price 'gainst price was eager wag'd : 
Thus either sharp print-selling brother, 
Strove hard to undersell the other (a) \ 



to R — g — d of the Strand, who in course of time began to think 
that money might be realized by setting up a small shop on the 
Surrey side of the water, and in order to ascertain this he took 
what was then little better than a hut, placing P — Is — r there to 
sell for him. The latter finding that the scheme answered, per- 
suaded R — g — d that it was a useless speculation, and in conse- 
quence of this his master relinquished the shop, which P — Is- -r 
instantly took, where he gradually got forward in the world, 
and now figures among print-sellers a very noted personage. This 
man, to increase his profits, has also taken an auction shop under 
the carpet -warehouse in Leicester-fields, which fairly ranks with 
others in the metropolis of a similar class. 

(a) No sooner had D — dd set up than a violent competition for 

the acquirement of custom took place between these Surrey 

heroes, each sneaking by candle-light to the other's window, in 

order to ascertain the prices marked upon prints, according to 

F 2 



68 CHALCOGRAFHIMANIA. 

D— dd. 

Next mov'd to street call'd Tavistock, 

To D — dd in crowds Collectors flock ; 

Till last in search of fortune's fane, 

He shows off in Saint Martins Lane, 

Where I fame's trump now boist'rous blowing, 

Thrice hail him knight — of Going — going (b). 



which they either encreased or decreased the suras at which they 
intended to sell their own commodities. 

(b) As an Auctioneer D — dd, though extremely ignorant, has 
had remarkable success, nor was the disposal of G — n — rat 
D — dsw — ll's collection one of the most insignificant boons of 
fortune. As to his pronunciation he calls a print admirable fine, 
and so forth. On the score of consummate effrontery no knight of 
the hammer can surpass him, as he literally will sit at his own 
table, while H — 11 — nd is vending his own prints, and bid with as 
much assurance as if he were a total stranger. He does not per- 
haps bear in recollection that there are such things as acts of par- 
liament, and that a clause in one, relating to auctioneers, prohibits 
any such vender from bidding more than once, which must either 



book ii. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 69 

Ev — ns. 

In shoals methinks I now see flock down 
Collectors, JSv — ns (c) to thy knock-down : 
When Roxburgh's fam'd gigantic sale. 
Made Catalogus pocket wail, 
Nor did a Stanley's choice editions,, 
Cause less enfuriate competitions 
With Bibliomanians, lur'd at finding 
To paper large join'd splendid binding. 



be at the commencement or termination of the bidding. By such 
conduct as this however the man has got forward, and being de- 
sirous to imitate the Great, has taken his country dwelling near 
Buckingham House. These grand ideas however sometimes ex- 
perience a temporary degradation, as proved the case in 
R — ch — rds— n's sale room, when D — dd having given a person 
named R—wl—s the lie, the latter reminded him of a former 
period, saying, that although he then looked so big, time was that 
he had not wherewith to purchase a pound of potatoes; which so 
enraged mine Auctioneer, that blows ensued, and a glorious mill- 
ing match proved the result, to the. infinite delight of the Chalco- 
graphimanian crew assembled. 



70 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

*. . ■ • , ' 

S — nd — rs. 

Last worthy to be rank'd the friend 
Of Catalogus, I'll unbend 



(c) This man is an Auctioneer, and when that is said, his 
history is at once enrolled : the R — xb — r — gh collection, which 
was very extensive, was much enriched by H — rb — rt and the 
Sc— tt's, while the St— nl— y library had to boast the choicest 
editions, which were farther enhanced in value by a display of the 
most sumptuous bindings. 

As a specimen of the prices at which the lots sold at the sale of 
this nobleman's effects, I shall first quote as instances the follow- 
ing works from the printing press of Caxton, 

£ hi 

Literary Festival, folio, purchased by Earl Spencer 105 

The prouffytable Boke for Manes Soule, called the Chas- 

tysing of Goddes Children, folio 140 

The Golden Legend, or Lives of the Saints, 1483, folio. . . 31 

The Life of St. Jerome, quarto 121 

Catherine of Tenis, folio 95 o 

Tullius of Old Age and Friendship, 1481, folio 115 

The Mirrour of the World, 1480, folio (the fairest and 

finest of Caston existing 351 15 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 71 



S — nd— rs. 



My Muse , that from Pall Mall meanders, 
To halt at Auction-room of S — nd — rs : 



£ s. 

The Kalendayr of Shyppers, folio 180 

The Boke of St. Alban's, folio, made perfect by MS. .... 147 
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, MSS. on vellum, with illumi- 
nations, purchased by the Duke of Devonshire 357 

I have not been able to trace the early prices of all the Caxtons 
mentioned in the above list, but the subjoined specimens will 
abundantly testify the rapid progress of the Bibliomania among 
Collectors. At Mr. West's sale in 1775, the following forming 
part of the above volumes, sold as under : 

At Mr. West's. At D. of R. 

£ s. £ s. 

The Prouffytable Boke for Mane's Soule, &c 5 . . 140 

The Mirror of the World, &c 2 13.. 351 15 

The Golden Legend 12 15. . 31 

Tullius of Old Age and Friendship 5 10. .115 

The Boke of St. Albans* 13 0..147 



* As another convincing proof of the astonishing rise which has 
taken place in the price of old books, I have farther to instance, 



72 CHALCOGRAPHIMAN IA. 

S — nd — rs. 

Whose heavy head leaves in the lurch (d) 9 
His neighbours at Saint Dunstan's church ; 



The 17th of June, 1812, proved however the grand climax in 
book vending, for at no time, and in no country, did lots realize 
prices at which they were knocked down by Mr. Evans. 

No. 6,292. II Decamerone di Boccacio, 1471 £2,260 

Of the present rarity of this edition of the Decameron, 
it is perhaps sufficient to state, that no other perfect copy 
is known to exist, after the fruitless research of more 
than three hundred jears. 

No. 6,348. The Boke of the Fayt of Armes of Chyvalrye, 

folio, Caxton, 1479, bought by Mr. Nornaville, for . . 336 

No. 6,343. The Veray trew History of the Valiant Knight 
Jason, folio, 1492. Of this rare edition no other copy 
is known ; bought by the Duke of Devonshire 94 10 



that less than twenty years back the rare dramatic pieces of 
Ferrex and Porrex, and Gorboduc were purchased of Otridge, 
in the Strand, for five shillings : it would be needless to say at 
what an advanced price they would sell at the present day. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 73 



S — nd— rs. 



I mean the wooden brace that tell, 
The fleeting hours by striking bell. 



£ s. 
No. 6,350. The Recuyeil of the Histories of Troye, &c. 

Caxton, 1473. This matchless copy of the first book 

printed in the English language, belonged to Elizabeth 

Grey, Queen of Edward IV. bought by the Duke of 

Devonshire, for 1060 10 

No. 6,353. The most Pytiful History of the noble Ap- 
polyn, king of Thyre, quarto, very rare, W. de Worde, 
1519, bought by Mr. Nornaville, for 115 10 

No. 6,360. The History of Blanchardyn and the Princess 
Eglantyne, folio, Caxton. Unique, but unfortunately 
imperfect ; bought by Earl Spencer, for 215 5 

No. 6,361. The right Pleasaunt and Goodlie Historye of 
the four Sonnes of Alman, folio ; bought by Mr. Heber, 
for 55 

No. 6376. The lyfe of Vergilius, rare, quarto, bought by 

the Marquis of Blandford, for 54 12 

No. 6,377. The Storye of Frederyke of Jennen, wood 

cuts, 1518 ; bought by Triphook, for 65 2 



74 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

S — nd — rs. 

With monst'rous clubs, from whence you cull 
Such brains as grace of those the scull, 



£ s. 
No. 6,378. The Story of Mary of Nemegen, 1518, bought 

by Triphook, for. . 67 

The day's sale amounted to 5035 7 

In addition to the above specimens of the Bibliomanian furor, I 
may farther note. 

£ s. 

Webb's Discourse of English Poeterie, which sold for .... 64 

The Paradyse of Daintye Devises 53 15 

The Passetime of Pleasure, by Stephen Hawys 81 

The Example of Virtue by the same Hand 60 

The History of Boccus and Sydracke 30 

The Contraverse between a Lover and a Jay 39 

The Spectacle of Lovers by Will Walter 43 

Guistarde and Sigesmunde 54 

The Castell of Pleasure 65 

A Translation of the Ship of Fools 64 

A Littel Treatise of the Horse, the Sheep, the Goos, by 

J. Lydgate 44 

The Love and Complaints between Mars and Venus 60 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 75 



S— nd— rs. 



That gaping- stand, to view the blows 
From whence the din recording flows. 



£ s. 
Gower's Confessions of Amantes 336 o 

Another neither so old nor so ugly (such is the value of 

deformity) , . . , 18 q 

Great sales of books by auction, to the amount of £40,000, 
have been made within these three years, and it was early com- 
puted, that the Roxburgh sale would produce twenty-five or 
thirty thousand pounds more. A collection of two-penny por- 
traits of criminals and other remarkable characters, chiefly per- 
sons tried at the Old Bailey, sold at this sale for £94. 10s.; and a 
collection of halfpenny ballads and garlands pasted in three 
volumes, for £478. 15s. Four years ago £32. was deemed a fair 
price for the first edition of Shakspeare's works, in folio, J 623; 
but in these Bibliomanian times, the collector conceives that he 
has purchased a bargain, if he procures the said volume for one 
hundred guineas, the price which it brought at the Duke of 
Roxburgh's sale. For a more elaborate account of the Book- 
mania, and particularly of the Decameron of Boccacio, vide 
vol. 5, page 272, &c. of the General Chronicle and Literary 
Magazine, from May to August 1812. 



CHALCOGRAPHIUAXIA. 



S — ." — : as thy envied &; : 

— rid birch broom. 

Ot last deeds making" thus the clearance. 

1 :ki/ made his disappearance 



(d) The vender above-mentioned cuts bat a very so-so figure in 

rhetoric, when employed in the bammr: si however loud 

fc; biwfc : md as for _ :n, in lieu of the word place, 

be ne^e: attars i :: ':::r without pronouncing it j>/««r, is 

manner pass — 

The vender in question : nstant habit of making 

cash advances :: S — '. who used to vest property in his hands as 
a securitv for the same. He also sold the remnant of ::t ' 
hoards when the game was up. and hie et ubiqve proved the order 
: _ : day. Another ■ seb j the Auctioneer 

now u^ :is realized money, is the following. 

The eustom is to pni chas e .^ of booksellers in want of 
readv cash, and not a few dealings of this kind has he had with a 
£ - _ "_ i ;e forwarded to 

book-binders,, of whom he has many in constant employ, thi: gme 
the most say appearance to publications of mean repute ; when 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 77 



S— nd— rs. 



In shades at once his head to hide 
Immerg'd in black dishonour's tide, 
For whoso from his bail can fly (f) 
Is stamp'd with guilt of deadly dye, 



such volumes are not only calculated to captivate his neighbours, 
the young students in the Temple, but the casual passenger also, 
to the manifest detriment of the fair trader. By practices such 
as these our Hammertonian has so well succeeded in feathering 
his nest, that he can always command £1000. at his banker's, or 
any other sum to answer the call of every distressed book-wight 
who cannot raise wind sufficient to draw in his paper kites. 

(/) This fact is known throughout the trade, from one of 
whom I gleaned the information some short time back, coupled 
with the following relation : that since J — n has been at hide and 
seek, his itch for auctions was such that he could not refrain from 
entering a house where property was selling off, when lo ! in the 
middle of the sale, an individual arrived, who had some time pre- 
vious bailed our run-away, and was consequently fixed with the 
payment of debt and costs. No sooner therefore did he recog- 
nize his man, than seizing him by the collar, he demanded instant 
remuneration in the face of the whole company, branding S— tfr 



78 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

S — nd — rs. 

His rectitude of mind debas'd 
And ev'ry moral thrill effac'd. 

Fain would the weary muse depart 
From knock-down knight — but Auction Mart 
Claims at her hand corrective whip, 
The deep deceptive veil to strip, 
That robs fair trader of his due; 
By specious holding forth to view, 
An eye-entrapping gew-gaw show, 
With nothing save external glow ; 
Like winter's sickly rays, that bring 
To mind the beams of dawning spring, 



at the same time with every epithet that appertains to a b — d. The 
pressing nature of the case not admitting of evasion, prompt 
measures were pursued, and the exasperated creditor, as I was in- 
formed, procured immediate satisfaction. 



KO oK ii. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 79 

Auction Marts. 

Which scarcely shine ere snow and frost 
Teach us 'tis winter to our cost : 
So Marts, like these, may lure the eye (g) 
Of thoughtless idiots passing by j 
But he that trusts, deceiv'd will be, 
And knowledge gain with golden key; 
For nought, save money's precious loss, 
Will make him know true ore from dross. 



(g) These receptacles, which are a complete nuisauce to so- 
ciety, call aloud for the corrective interference of our legislature, 
as independent of the tinselled rubbish with which they decoy the 
unsuspecting passengers, they are farther instrumental in depriving 
the auctioneer of that custom to which he has a just claim, in 
consequence of the enormous rental of large premises, that he 
is compelled to tenant, as well as the burthensome government 
duties to which he is necessarily subjected. 



END OF BOOK THE SECOND. 



IBoofe tU CWtD. 



BOOK THE THIRD. 



O ! curas hominum, O ! quantum est in rebus inane. 

Your cares O ! men I'll tell you free, 
Are centred in — — Frivolity. 



OLD PRINT-SELLERS, &C. 

JL HOUGH dead, I must to fame hand down, 
Of Senior Gr — v — s the high renown (a) ; 
Whose little cunning piggish eye, 
Betoken'd all that could rank sly, 



(a) Senior Gr — v — s, who has now been dead many years, was 
one of the oldest hunters after portraits and Chalcographimanian 

G2 



84 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Gr— v— s, Sen. and Jun. 

Who bought with acumen profound, 

And turn'd each shilling" into pound ; 

As now will vouch his able son, 

Whose knowledge shrewd is scarce outdone 

By any Chalcographian wight 

That makes old prints his heart's delight. 

E'en from a C— If — d, skilful blade, 

True monarch of the portrait trade. 

To Catalogus, knight acute, 

Who red-hot follows print pursuit ; 

In short, the living Gr— v — s must be 

Rank'd sound judge of Chalcography (b). 



specimens, beginning this research at a period when there existed 
scarcely any competitors ; wherefore, although he lived to witness 
the most extraordinary rise in the value of engravings, could he 
now be taken from his tomb, I really conceive that he would 
hardly credit his senses. 

(&) Whensoever merit demands the meed of praise, far be it 



book in. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 85 

Gr — v — s, Sen. and Jun. 

In autographs as ably vers'd, 

As Ckatterton the poet erst ; 

Or he that later wielded fire-brand, 

The impudent and forging Ireland, 

Appears to view print-selling Th — ne (c) 9 

Of Chalcographian knowledge vain, 



from me to withhold the due encomium which cannot possibly be 
enrolled at a more fitting period than the present ; since this 
dealer most indubitably possesses true Chalcographian know- 
ledge j nor let me in this place forget [although unknown] to ac- 
knowledge the many obligations which I owe to the personage in 
question, for the sterling advice he has given me during the prose- 
cution of my own collecting mania, 

(c) By the F — th — rg — // collection, Th — ne realized a fortune, 
and he will take especial good care that it shall not slip out of his 
fingers; independent of his pursuit after portraits, &c. he is a 
fancier of Autographs, many specimens of which, accompanied by 
portraits, have been given to the collecting world ; in addition to 
which he has to boast no very trifling store of medals, that engross 
his thoughts equally with the above-mentioned researches. 



86 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

S — mco. 

Who stor'd with pelf is never mum, 
Collectors holding 'neath his thumb, 
For whoso craves of him rare print, 
Tn payment ne'er must think to stint ; 
He asks round sum, so if you flout it 
I'faith you e'en must do without it ; 
Which renders plain proverbial lore, 
That cash in hand beyetteth more. 

O'er huge portfolio fretful stands, 
Awaiting customers' commands, 
Old $ — mco who with gutt'ral speech, 
Toils gentlemen to over-reach, 
Who tightly grasps within his hold, 
Bank flimsies, or what's rarer, gold ; 
Whose ceaseless cry is sure to be, 
His starving state and poverty ; 
So rather than a just debt pay, 
He'll send the creditor away, 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 87 



S — mco. 



While from his whining- tongue so glib, 
He canting tells notorious fib (d), 



(d) When necessity has compelled me to visit the shop of this 
whining canting dealer, I have with infinite difficulty refrained 
from giving vent to my risible faculties, as he literally is the very 
epitome of discontent ; penury, poverty, and want, being always 
at the tip of his tongue. If we regard him as acting upon the 
principle of an Elwes or Daniel Dancer, we behold him creeping 
to the most remote parts of the town, in order to purchase a loaf, 
because he can get it a farthing cheaper than in his own neigh- 
bourhood, while the same is conveyed home in a dirty, snuffy 
pocket handkerchief. On the score of S — mc — 's veracity, I can 
only affirm that I have heard him when in his shop declare to 
some stranger who called for payment of a bill, that by his Saviour 
he was not at that time worth a dollar, when I myself ten minutes 
before had paid him pounds for a lot of prints, and upon the death 
of an old servant maid, it was whispered that a subscription would 
be of great utility in defraying the charge of her interment, 
which however was conducted in a way that gave evident proof 
very little expence was resorted to. Some years back a ludi- 
crous circumstance occurred to this dealer. Having an ap- 
pointment with a gentleman at a particular hour, he was repairing 
to the spot with a portfolio under his arm, when happening to pass 



88 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. , 

S — mco. 

As Catalogus well can vouch, 
Who oft o'erreach'd — hath emptied pouch ; 
For print raris. by S — mco rated : 
Whereas whole quires were then created 
From plate new-found, which he'll confer (e), 
As favour on each customer. 



by a little book stall, he saw put up in the window for sale a very 
scarce old volume, the label upon the same purporting that it was 
to be sold for sixpence: on knocking at the door however, no one 
proved to be at home ; what therefore was to be done ? he durst 
not disappoint one of his best customers, and to leave the book to 
the chance of another collector passing by, was death to his 
fondest hopes. Thus critically situated, creative fancy, on the 
spur, suddenly put it into his head to break the pane of glass, 
which hi the furor of the moment he was on the point of executing, 
but the dread of consequences checked his hand, when at that 
moment the window-shutter struck his regard, which he actually 
raised and placed before the window, to hide the book in question. 

(e) So many circumstances might be adduced of prints former- 
ly rarissimo. becoming a drug, in consequence of the original 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 89 



M— It— no. 



M — It — no next in nasal tone, 
That emulates the bagpipe's drone ; 
Print-seller ranks of highest rate, 
Thanks to blind fortune and his fate ; 
For when he first trod Albion's isle, 
He lack'd of wealth the precious pile ; 



coppers being discovered, that it would be superfluous to enume* 
rate any one instance in particular. The multiplication of im- 
pressions however has only occurred where the plates have got 
into the hands of greenhorns, as your more experienced dealers, 
like our S ; — mc — , make a point of ekeing them out with infinite 
caution, after gracing the impressions with all the sacred terugo of 
Ghalcographian antiquity. In order to prevent such a circum- 
stance as this from ever taking place, we have a living instance in 
the person of a grocer who hangs out the sugar-loaf in Dean- 
street, and has actually caused three plates of himself to be en- 
graved ; One an whole length, from which he has only 
struck off half a dozen impressions, and then destroyed the 
plates, in order to confer the title of extra rare upon these deli- 
neations of his sugar-plumb countenance.— Credite posteri! ! ! 



90 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



M— It— no. 



Of images the vender poor, 

Thus selling- wares from door to door (f). 

But now he shares of Dons the love, 

With Chalcographians hand and glove. 

Such change of times records my pen, 

And with them too the fates of men ; 

For poor to-day is rich to-morrow, 

This hour brings mirth — next teems with sorrow. 

M — It — no owes to luck alone 

The wealth he now proclaims his own ; 



(/) M — It — n — 's next step to honour and printselling/awje was 
filling the envied post of foot-boy to Th — ne and T—rr, whose 
boots and shoes experienced the efficacy of his manual labours. 
Under such experienced Chalcographians, it is consequently little 
to be wondered at that this personage should imbibe the divine 
cacoethes, which by progressive gradations has exalted him to the 
present acme of his greatness. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 91 



M— It— no. 



No talent led to fortune's road, 
His scull a very pondWous load Q), 



(g) This assertion will become manifest when I acquaint my 
reader that our vender caused a drawing to be made by Bettilini, 
of the carrotty headed young master M — It — no, which was after- 
wards engraved and published. Upon the first appearance of the 
print in question, a nobleman chanced to enter our dealer's shop, 
when seeing the portrait upon the counter, he exclaimed : " What 

" d d ugly little wretch have you got here, M — It — no 1" to 

which the latter, quite abashed, replied, " It is my Son, my 
" Lord!" This brings to my recollection the anecdote of a 
gentleman at the Theatre, being seated next to Lord North, with 
whose person he was unacquainted, and of whom he enquired, 
after some preliminary conversation, the name of a lady sitting on 
the opposite side of the house, adding, that she was the ugliest 
woman he ever beheld—" That," replied his lordship, " is my 
" sister, Sir." Confounded at the error he had committed, the 
interrogator stammering, exclaimed, " / do not mean that lady, 
but the one seated next to her." " Oh !" answered Lord North, 
smiling, " That, Sir, is my wife, and we are esteemed the ugliest 
" couple in England." 



92 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK III. 



C— h 



Which naught can ever render clear, 
Wherefore till death ends life's career, 
His genius ne'er from shop will fly, 
Just form'd to sett, to bid, and buy (h). 

From sing-song sweet Italia's land, 
Another view, who swells our band y 
That like the former came sans sous, 
With naught but love of pelf in view. 



(k) M — It — no and C — 1 — g — i were originally partners, but 
the instant the partnership was dissolved, M — It — no became the 
purchaser of a very valuable collection, that laid the foundation of 
his fortune. I had nearly omitted to mention the conduct of Mr. 
D— nt, M. P. who one day entered the shop of M—lt — no in a 
towering rage, upon which occasion he abused this print-vender 
in the most violent manner, because our poor Ckalcographian 
had exposed in his window a portrait of Bonaparte for sale, 
having placed the same by the side of a fine print of our Saviour. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 93 



c-l-g-i- 



His calling then to catch our rats (i), 
But faith he soon caught better Fiats, 
For patronage of weak John Bull, 
With coin has stow'd his lockers full ; 
While native worth is left to pine, 
Since Britons ever must incline, 



(i) I have been credibly informed that C — 1 — g — i's debut 
on the London pavee was in the character of a rat-catcher ; but as 
to his early connection with Chalcography, I am not enabled to 
afford my readers any insight into the subject. While engaged on 
the topic of this Chalcographian vender, I cannot help noticing 
the licence granted to foreigners to import and export prints, 
which might equally facilitate the conveyance of political infor- 
mation to our enemies. Prompted by my partiality for the arts, 
I repaired as well as others to the shop of C — 1 — g — i, to in- 
spect the highly extolled print of the Gallic Emperor, an impres- 
sion of which was purchased by the Prince Regent, when in lieu of 
finding it the ne plus ultra of engraving, I will venture to affirm 
that it is not equal to the efforts of our Heath or Sharp. The im- 
pression is fine, and the paper and ink excellent, and to those 
essential requisites it stands indebted for its beauty. 



94 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

C-l-g-i. 

To pamper foreign art and trick, 
Consigning English worth — to Nick (j) 
Did I the helm of state command, 
Of vermin straight I'd clear the land. 
No fawning foreigner should e'er, 
Of ought that 'long'd to me have care ; 
To Albion's race I'd prove the friend, 
Britons on Britons should attend (k) ; 



(j) No subject deserves more pointedly the corrective hand of 
satire than this shameful predilection of the Great for persons of 
foreign extraction, while English talent is left to weather the 
bitterest storms of neglect and adverse fortune. Take the whole 
circuit of our nobility, nay, even commence with the ramifications 

from R ty itself, and you will find that our very P es 

are the abettors of this partiality. One would really imagine that 
the affair of Sellis and the Duke of Cumberland would have 
afforded a wholesome and corrective lesson ; but the evil still 
exists, to the lasting shame of the present aera, and the degradation 
of that national feeling, which was the boasted pride of our patrio- 
tic ancestors. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 95 



St— c— . 



With which plain comment I thus close, 
And send C — 1 — g — i to repose (I), 

Array'd in puritanic grace, 

Comes Catalogues crony St — c — , 

Who wond'rous well knows how to diddle 
Great connoisseurs who buss Mis fiddle. 



(ft) I should like to ascertain the cause of this caco'ethes for 
foreign attendants ; for my part there is a fawning sycophancy, an 
inexpressible something about Italians, and Frenchmen in parti- 
cular, that always excites in my breast an unconquerable feeling of 
aversion : not to lay any stress on the acknowledged predilection 
of the former for a vice abhorrent to human nature. Englishmen, 
on the contrary, possess a manly independence, which scorns to 
have recourse to mean servility in attending their employers ; and 
it is this characteristic which renders them in my estimation the 
fittest domestics for their generous countrymen. 

(I) 1 am told there is not a sum of money which could be de- 
manded in reason that would not be given by C — 1 — g — i, if the 
prohibitions upon him as an alien could be removed. 



96 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

St—c— . 

In fine his word's an ipse dixit, 
If nameless print you have, he nicks it (m) : 
So well at christ'ning carries farce on, 
You'd vow he was some village parson ; 
Witness our Catalogus, when 
He leagued with band of sapient men, 
Old Chalcographians passing deep, 
'Whose judgment ne'er was known to sleep, 
And countless others who have nam'd, 
A portrait base — Our Shakespeare fam'd ; 
From which hath issu'd graven plate, 
Subscrib'd for by collecting great (n), 



(m) St — c — has by some means or other wriggled himself 
into the good graces of the Great, who no doubt serve his purpose 
admirably. One very happy step towards this enviable exaltation, 
was and is the knack of christening any nameless print or picture 
that may chance to be in the possession of a customer ; thus ren- 
dering it either serviceable in illustrating, or affording some artist 
a job by having it engraved pro bono publico. 



book m.' CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 97 

St— c— . 

f . - -■ .-'- ■ i •■■ .*» 

Which well hath answer'd St — c — 's end, 
Who proved in this friend Ego's friend : 



(w) This print, which is engraved from a picture that resem- 
bled as much the bard of Avon, as Ben Jonson or Joe Miller ; 
was puffed off in the newspapers and advertised with a confidence 
& la St — c — , that nothing could surpass. From the very first 
moment that I saw the painting in the possessor's hands, I pro- 
nounced it spurious, notwithstanding I was told to my infinite 
astonishment, that the correct and able judging Mr.D — ce, had 
not only given it his sanction, but honoured the list of subscribers 
by inserting his name : how far this gentleman may still continue 
in the same mind, I am not precisely enabled to state, but I rather 
apprehend his faith is much shaken. That St — c — 's grand 
object was however answered, there can be little doubt, for profit 
after all, is the Chalcographian vender's primum mobile. 

Since penning the above note, I have called to my remem- 
brance another portrait, said to be an original likeness of our 
bard when a young man, which was offered to view at the shop 
of C — 1 — g — , and is the property I understand of a Mr. 
P — rry, who has a taste for design, having executed drawings of 
several mendicant characters and others, eighteen of which are 
etched by an artist of the name of Van Assen, who seems to 



98 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. book ib, 

' » ■ . - ■ -^ 

St— c— . 

Since after all — no matter whether 

A Crispin cutter-out of leather 

This portrait rare may represent, 

Great St — c — * no doubt earn'd cent, per cent. 

And though such pictures may be pretty, 

He best prefers bank notes from city : 



follow the style of Callot with great ability. Each of these por- 
traits is accompanied by a short biographical sketch of the indi- 
vidual, one of which is particularly curious, viz. the likeness of 
Cardozo, a dwarf from Portugal, who was made a public spec- 
tacle during three days only, being sent to his native country at 
the expiration of that short term by order of the Portuguese 
ambassador. This extraordinary diminutive personage could only 
be paralleled by Count Borulawski, who some years back exhi- 
bited himself in the Strand, combining with great affability the 
manners of the most polished courtier. A few of these etchings 
were pirated by D— rt— n, son of the printseller of that name, 
who was however compelled to stop the sale, of the impressions by 
the possessor of the plates in question, which doubtless grace the 
collection of B — r — n D — ras — le, whose mania consists in pro- 
curing portraits of people of every description. 



book ,n. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 99 

St— c— . 

So while on print extoll'd to sky, 

We talk — that cries out buy fools buy, 

A theme stili older verse shall melt on, 

Mere picture's scrap possess'd by Felton, 

That gave to view a German's phiz, 

Which R — ch — rds — n by way of quiz, 

In sizes three caus'd to be graven, 

As if one print of head thus shaven 

Were not enough — -though dubb'd by sage, 

Of Avon's bard the true visage (o)» 



(o) Some years back an old head, exhibited at the European 
Museum, and belonging to a Mr. Felton, which was merely part 
of a picture, was boldly pronounced to be the original of Droes- 
hout's engraving, affixed to the folio of Shakespeare's plays; where- 
as it precisely resembles a snuff-taking German. From this iden- 
tical painting, however, R — ch — rds—n caused three different 
sized plates to be executed, which were, I believe, sanctioned by 
numerous subscribers ; but whether to an extent that left much 
profit in the printseller's hands, I will not take upon myself to 

H 2 



100 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

J— hn S— tt. 

With one more comment I'll dismiss, 
Our Chalcographian, which is this, 
He hath a noddle, but for brain, 
Were we to search, 'twould be but vain, 
"Tis all mere outside, *gew-gaw sham ; 
His "knowledge nothing but flim-flam (p). 

The bard shall now a tale repeat, 
With many fam'd exploits replete ; 
So, first, 'tis fit his theme should quote 
Ane Herbert's name, and cautious note (q), 



determine. While upon this topic, let not Sir Richard Phillips's 
whole length picture of Chaucer be forgotten, of which, an en- 
graving is affixed to Godwin's life of that poet. 

(jp) From naught take naught and what remains 1 

The store that's lodg'd in St — c — 's brains. 

(q) At the epoch alluded to H—rb — rt was a very young man, 






soo* in. CHALCOGRAPtilMANIA. 101 

J— hn S— tt. 

That aera as the time when winding-, 
Our youthful toiler at b — k-b — nd — ng ; 
Like Anaconda round its prey, 
Grasp'd stores against prmtselling day. 
And having safe secur'd the spoils, 
Left prey to struggle in its toils -, 
*Twas then to shew how talent oft, 
To art oppos'd, proves mighty soft, 
That Ir — I — nd, fam'd for picturesque, 
And fond of Hogarth's keen burlesque, (V) 



and had just come into possession of all the rare typographical 
stores of his uncle, residing at Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire, which 
had originally constituted the library of Am — s. From this 
ample collection the hero of my tale procured fine pickings by 
way of exchange, and part money, &c. for while any thing re- 
mained J — hnny proved 

Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo. 
(r) Two individuals of the same name have written upon the 



102 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

J— hn S— tt. 

Should oft have aided Sawney's views, 

Permitting him to pick and choose, 

For very mediocre price, 

Prime bits, by connoisseurs dubb'd nice. 

To parent now the son let's add, 

Of ancient lore, impostor lad, (s) 



subject of Hogarth, John and Samuel Ir — I — nd ; the latter is 
however the personage above alluded to, who was no less fam'd 
with connoisseurs for his several volumes of Picturesque Views, 
than the ever memorable folio of Shakespearian relics. The 
pursuit after Hogarth's works was in much greater repute some 
years back, than at the present period : there are not however 
wanting individuals who still cherish every effort of this satirical 
artist, and among them no collector is perhaps possessed of greater 
rarities than Mr. Vincent, who was many years the friend and 
companion of Hogarth, until the sarcasm of Churchill, combined 
with other circumstances, deprived the world of his inimitable 
powers. 

(5) Having before adverted to the flagrant imposture palmed 
upon the world by the pseudo stores of this fabricator, I shall no 



book ra. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 103 

* , . , — 

J— hn S— tt. 

Who guilty was — accursed sin, 
Of taking all the old ones in ! 
A crime I swear to pardon never, 
Or even grant the forger clever ; 
Who, spite of all his shrewd research, 
Was left by Scotchman in the lurch ; 
Collection culling as he pleas' d, 
Whereby the would-be bard was eas'd ; 
Who found in time of money's dearth, 
He scarce had shar'd one-tenth its worth. 

In due succession H — rd — g next, 
Enrols his name upon my text, 
An inoffensive simple man, 
As e'er race Chalcographian ran ; 



longer harp upon the same string, but dismiss him with a query 
from Virgil, 

Et credis cineres curare sepultos ? 



104 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

J— hn S— tt. 

Who now 'neath Windsor's shade serene, 
From strife secure guards stores of queen ; 
So there with fat of land content, 
In peaceful joys his hours are spent : 
But did he choose to speak — alack ! 
He might tell tales of Will and Jack : 
A string of evidence make clear, 
Respecting plates that grace Shakespeare; 
On Dryden's folio dwell with pain, 
And Life's (Economy explain ; 
Speak as to fables sweet of Flora, 
And long descant on Leonora ; 
Whose choice designs made all remark, 
The genius of dame Di Beauclerk (f). 



,, (t) N—d H—rd — ng, formerly residing in Pall Mall, but now 
snugly immured in the vicinity of Frogmore, was the publisher of 
all the works cited above, no inconsiderable portion of which 



,ook. m. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 105 

j_h Q S— tt. 

To these I might add proofs still more, 
Showing how some can heap a store ; 
But fleeting Time forbids delay, 
Wherefore to reader I'll display, 
Of some the names who shar'd Scotch treats, 
Poor gulls that now know northern feats ; 
Whose goods and chattels were impressed, 
To feather our printseller's nest. 
With S — 1 — d march hand in hand (u) 
D — y (v), All — n (w): — sage departed Br — nd, (x) 



were procured by the S — tt's for b — k — d — g, &c. as Mr. D — y 
the p-^wribr — k — r of S — t M — rt — n's Lane can testify, even to 
the present hour. 

(u) Mr. S — th — rl — nd the collector, who was an excellent 
customer of S — tt's, was requited for all his favours by the latter 
procuring the loan of some hundreds, not a farthing of which will 
ever be remunerated. 

(») Mr. D—y the p—wnbr — k—r, who is bitten with a book- 



106 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

J—hn S — tt. 

And L — p — d; while now last to fame, (y) 
Must ushered be arch C — If — d's name, 



mania, was in the habit of lending our northern hero large sums of 
money upon works which, however profitable for a long period of 
time, proved at last a very losing concern. This knight of the 
golden balls was left guardian to the daughter of an opposite 
cheesemonger, who had, very justly, the highest opinion of his in- 
tegrity, with the care of her fortune, of £30,000. 

(w) All — n the hr—w — r, who may just as well be termed a 
dealer as a collector, advanced many sums in support of the 
jV— bl — A — th—r's, under the full conviction of gaining a 
good per centage ; but in this hope he was wofully disappointed, 
nearly as much, as when he tried in vain to match the Prince of 
Wales's famous horse, and has now given up, not only the idea of 
interest, but all Hops of the principal. 

I cannot conclude my remarks on this personage without making 
mention of the deceased John Egerton's opinion of his character, 
and that of old F— Id— r, which was as follows: that^/Z— n would 

not scruple to a church, but that F—ld—r would accept a 

poor child's bread and butter. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 107 



J— hn S— tt. 



Who, though expert, thus found a flogger, 
And with him also pettifogger (z) : 



(x) Br — nd, who like the late A — th — ny St — r — r, and the 
living Mr. W — st — n, would poke into every hole and corner to 
procure prints at a mediocre price, was called upon to forfeit 
£500. for non-residence, which sum he was unable to pay, and 
therefore thought fit to employ our J — hnny to strip his Granger 
of all its rarities, in order to raise money by selling the prints in 
private, Of these Chalcographian curiosities Mr. S — th—rl — nd 
became a great purchaser at enormous prices, thereby leaving a 
decent profit to the wily vender. 

{y) The above personage is a paper-merchant, who would very 
willingly resign all claim to his debt for one pound weight of 
old rags. 

(z) As desperate persons are usually in league with characters of 
a similar stamp, it is not at all surprising that J— ky should have 

recourse to lawyers of such a description as W , &c. ; but 

that he should possess the art of over-reaching them is no less 
wonderful than true. One attorney however, named B—xt — n, a 
young man of the best character, has to enrol his name with the 



108 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK III. 



Billv. 



But soft the rein 'tis fit to check, 
Lest Pegasus should break my neck ; 
So now I'll quit this northern bite, 
And wing- for kindred realm my flight. 

Tar nobile fratrum. 

'Tis fact, though none could e'er believe, 
A polish'd Tys — n could receive, 
And prove himself so wond'rous silly 
To entertain a Scottish Billy; (a) 



rest upon the losing score, owing to the confidence which he 
placed in the assertions of his inveigler. 

(c) Our northern dealer, * 'knout any invitation, as I understand, 
had the daring effrontery to present himself some few years back, 
at the country seat of the above gentleman, whose urbanity alone, 
as I conjecture, led him to tolerate his presence : for as to his 
breeding, erudition, or any one concomitant requisite for the for- 



book in. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 109 

Billy. 

Printseller, who if aught that's mean, 

On countenance e'er yet was seen, 

Lavater's page would verify, 

And give to sceptics all the lie : 

A downcast look, where reigns complete 

The Janus symbol of deceit : 

An eye that always looks askance, 

Afraid to meet the manly glance; 

A tongue well oil'd with flatt'ry's juice, 

Subservient to each fawning use, 

That can converted be to self, 

The universal object — pelf: 

O ! shame that men of worth can thus 

Descend to herd with grov'ling sus! 



mation of a gentleman, he is totally divested of them, while his 
countenance, person, and manners, are the just types of meanness, 
vulgarity, and inelegance. 



110 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Billy. 

Yet strange to tell, these facts appear 
Full oft in Chalcographian sphere ; 
Though dealers prove with Bill on par, 
Who 'gainst plain English wages war, 
No single rule of grammar knowing, 
Vulgarity from tongue fast flowing : 
As for his breeding — under banners 
Of swine he marches — void of manners; 
The sum of all his race — mere funning, 
Back'd by sheer impudence and cunning, (b) 



(b) In addition to his other qualifications, this bookbinder 
informs the trade, with a vast deal of consequence, that he has 
many rarissimo prints, but that he is so fearful of fire, that he 
has deposited them in the hands of a banker, for security against 
that destructive element^ now this statement may in a certain 
degree be correct, if in place of banker we insert the words pawn- 
broker, as in all probability in imitation of his brother, such 
scarce specimens of Chalcography are in durance vile at the Golden 
Ball Repository in S—t M~rt—~n'$ Lane. 



book m. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. Ill 

C If d. 

Of sloven fame, with paws as black 
As kettle or the chimney's back, 
Experienced C — If— d now appears, 
Whom Catalogus much reveres. 
Nor is there Chalcographian sage 
Than him more vers'd in Granger s page } 
Or better knows old portrait's price, 
And fram'd to give the best advice (c) ; 
His acumen hath oft outrun 
The trade combin'd and deep ones — done (d) i 



(c) The personage now before us has for many years back 
made portraits in particular his constant study, nor is there in the 
whole trade a mind better stored with this branch of the Chalco- 
graphian art. In the course of C d's career, many fortu- 
nate windfalls have occurred, and so many rare and valuable prints 
have not perhaps passed through the hands of any other individual; 
one failing however he has displayed, which is, the suffering them 
to pass into other collections, without reaping their real value. 

(d) I could enumerate several instances where dealers, who 



112 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

c — If d. 

Who furious have revil'd the act, 
Whereas the very self same fact 
Themselves had practis'd, had the sconce 
Been stor'd sufficient for the nonce. 
As for his acts and person too, 
Naught brings him stronger to the view, 
Than subject which his brain engross'd, 
Of noted Characters — queer host, (e) 
Of whom he well might rank the Chief, 
And of said book grace foremost leaf. 



arrogated to themselves great knowledge of prints, have been com- 
pletely outwitted by the above personage, upon which occasions 
the most unqualified abuse has been lavished upon him. These 
revilers, at the same time forget, that their own consciences 
would willingly have sustained the burthen thus heaped upon his, 
had they been possessed of acumen equal to the task of circum- 
venting him upon similar occasions. 

(e) C — If—Id lias displayed no small share of judgment in his 



CH ALCOGRAPHIM ANIA. 1 13 



C— r— m. 



Sarcastic C — r— m next is seen, 
The former's friend, — with visage keen; 
He's slow of speech, but wond'rous dry (/*), 
And seldom shoots his shaft awry : 



literary efforts. The publication of his Remarkable Charac- 
ters, which is now completed by Mr. Kirby, (the publisher 
of the Wonderful Museum in a series of volumes), is a 
sufficient proof that his efforts in delineating biographical 
sketches are very far above mediocrity, added to which he is ex- 
tremely fortunate in selecting subjects likely to arrest public atten- 
tion. If we consider the general conduct of this Chalcographian, 
few individuals can lay claim to greater oddity ; and in regard to 
his costume, it would be sacrilege either to brush his coat or clean 
his shoes : in short, negligence is the predominant feature of his 
character. 

(/) C — r — m some years back sustained the loss of his collec- 
tion by fire, and having dropped his insurance, the event fell the 
heavier upon him ; this calamity however he sustained with manly 
fortitude, and by perseverance and integrity of conduct in all his 
dealings, he is endeavouring to retrieve his loss. I have fre- 
quently stationed myself beside this individual at sales, in order to 
converse with him, when I have found his judgment acute and his 



114 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



C— r— m. 



'Twas he increas'd a Townley's store (g), 
Whose loss the Muse must here deplore, 
Whose valued friendship long" was mine, 
Whose breast contain* d an heart benign; 
Whose lib'ral hand ne'er fail'd to bless 
The pining- victims of distress : 



remarks upon men and manners delivered with that species of sar= 
casm, for which he is particularly noticed. I cannot refrain from 
adding, that his relationship to that great philanthropist Thomas 
Coram, through whose means the Foundling Hospital was estab- 
lished, should have entitled him to the consideration of the persons 
who are at the head of that wealthy establishment. 

(g) Many years back C — r — m and C — If — d, having con- 
jointly illustrated a Granger, sold it to M — F — nn — r — u, whom 
they supplied with prints, until that gentleman, wearied with the 
collecting mania, sold his specimens at King's auction room, 
But the best customer of the person now under review was the 
late Mr. Townley, who, although gifted with a refinement of 
taste in every branch of science and literature, was still possessed 
of a more inestimable gem— — the noble and feeling qualification! 
of a heart that conferred honour upon the title of man. 



book in. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 115 

C— r— m. 

From earthly realms for ever fled, 
Immers'd in mansions of the dead, 
Bless' d shade farewell ! * * * * 

«fc Tj£ ifc 3}£ 7& $k "J^ ' 7($ "^C $fc -jf£ 

* * * * Soft pensive Mnse, 
'Tis fit my verse should here infuse 
Our C— r — m's Chalcographian worth, 
Whose mind of talent shows no dearth (h) ; 
But what he has he'll keep, 'tis plain, 
Since none could ever pump his brain; 



(h) I conceive that I am not infringing upon the dictates of 
veracity, when I place this individual upon a par with C — If — Id 
and young Gr — v — s, and with regard to his knowledge of 
costume, a gentleman, upon whose judgment I can rely, has more 
than once assured me that he conceives C — r — m is as well, if not 
better versed in the subject in question, than any individual con- 
nected with Chalcographian research. 

i2 



116 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. book m. 

J— ff— ry. 

Well studied in the Cynic school, 
He's govern' d by this sterling rale (iy, 
That all men are sheer knaves by custom, 
So he ne'er deems it safe to trust 'em. 

With hands and face begrim'd with dirt, 
With dusty coat and greasy shirt, 
With one shoe off and one shoe on (j), 
Appears friend J — ff — ry, noted Don ; 






(J) Whether J — y has ever thought proper in his absent fits to 
go barefoot, I cannot for a certainty say, but I will venture to 
affirm, that he has paraded the streets on the Sabbath in a bine 
mottled stocking and a white one, upon which occasion he called 
upon a person, who desired his maid to see what individual was at 
the door : when the servant going into the area, and two legs 
differently arrayed meeting her regard, she informed her master 
there were two persons. In respect to this dealer's dirty appear- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 1 17 



j_ff_ ry . 



Whose filth our Catalogus cries : — 
" Is print Erugo — matchless prize I" 
This Chalcographian manners boasts 
Of pigs that rule in sties the roasts (k} f 



ance, the following characteristic anecdote may be depended on. 
J — y was iii the constant habit of frequenting a public house in 
Castle Street, Leicester Fields. Being there on St. Patrick's day, 
the company present, and our printseller among the rest, had 
been jeering Pat about his shamrock, when the Hibernian turn- 
ing to J — y, exclaimed, " By Jasus, now I would advise that 
" every Englishman, in order to identify his country, should ap- 
" pear in a clean shirt." 

(k) Mr. T — rn — y, the member of parliament, had for some reason 
or other given offence, in his public capacity to J — y, who happen- 
ed to meet him in company with L — d Sp — nc — r when walking 
along Pall Mall. J — ff — ry marching up to this nobleman, enquir- 
ed how his Lordship could think of keeping company with such a 
b — kg — d. Indeed, so abusive was our dealer, that Mr. 

T y was obliged to take J — y before a magistrate, when he 

was bound over to keep the peace. 



US CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

J-_ff_ry, 

Still ne'ertheless most polish'd men 
Repair to his Augean den, 
Which proves of itch the just reflector, 
That lords the soul of each collector. 
Yet spite of dirt and want of breeding, 
Friend J — ff — ry boasts no dearth of reading; 
His mind acute knows business well (7), 
Wherefore on theme no more to dwell, 



(J) As a Bibliomanian, few dealers surpass J — ffr — y in know- 
ledge, whereas bis research into Chalcography is very circum- 
scribed. I have however enrolled his name among printsellers., 
in consequence of the illustrated Clarendon, which he some years 
back disposed of by raffle, on which occasion the prize fell to 
the present Duke of Gl — c — st—r, who possesses no taste for 
this mania. As however the name of this r 1 personage em- 
blazons my page, it may not be amiss to inform the public, that 
when his H — gh — ss was in Russia, two noblemen of that country 
were politely assiduous in their attendance upon him, for which 
conduct, on leaving the north, he very munificently presented the 
one with a watch, value Jive pounds, while the other was honoured 



book in. CHALCOGRAPH1MANIA. 119 

P — t — r Br — wne. 

I'll close my subject in a trice, 

By giving him this good advice : 

Make friends with water : clean shirt show, 

Since dirt, good Sir, is Sense's foe. 

Now ere I tune to some the ditty, 
In plodding regions of the city ; 
All hail St. Giles's P—t—r Br— wne! 
Great cabbage-merchant of our town, 
For paintings noted, prints, and ballads, 
Potatoes, onions, greens, and sallads! (m) 



with a mezzotinto portrait of himself, value seven shillings, which 
princely presents are now displayed in that country as a specimen 
of the generosity of an English descendant of the blood r — y — /. 

(m) This monarch of sallads may be termed an universal trader, 
as he will with one hand serve out a cabbage, and with the other 
present his customer with a print or oil picture. As to judgment 



120 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

P — t — r Br — wne. 

Who some thought would have journey'd far, 
Till safe escap'd Old B — ly Bar (n) ; 



he can boast as much as falls to the lot of a turnip or a potatoe, 
notwithstanding which he is worth no trifling sum of money. The 
following anecdote, however, will serve as a specimen of his 
acumen. Some years back he purchased of one Aldr — dg — , a 
low print-vender, then resident under the Piazza of Covent 
Garden, an impression of Hollar's rare print, representing a whole 
length of Francis Battalia, the stone-eater, copied in C — If — Id's 
Remarkable Characters. For this print Peter gave sixpence, and 
afterwards resold it to young Gr — v— s for four shillings, whereas 
it was worth about as many guineas. This circumstance being 
made public, the fact came to Aldr— dg — 's ears ; wherefore the 
next time Br — wne went into his shop, the wife of the Piazza print- 
seller, who was a complete termagant, exasperated that her 
husband should have thus undersold his property, ran out with a 
kettle full of scalding water, swearing that she would throw it over 
our cabbage hero, for having cheated her caro sposo, nor would 
she have failed in effecting her purpose, had not Peter taken to 
his heels, and run off with all the expedition possible, 

(») Several copies of the History of Westminster, published by 






book in. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 121 

P — t — r Br — wne. 

This dull deaf Proteus of the trade, 
Hath Croesus' laws so well obey'd; 
As now good competence to boast, 
Well known by our printselling host, 
Who oft by Auctioneer hard press'd, 
Their lols to clear, — have Br — wne address'd, 
And for their bills with tender' d fee, 
Have discount got to set prints free (o). 



Ackermann of the Strand, at fifteen guineas, were purchased by 
Br — wne, of a shopman of the former trader, at the reduced sum 
of five pounds ; in consequence of which Ackermann, upon ascer- 
taining the fact, discovered that the copies in question had been 
purloined by his servant ; wherefore he indicted Peter as a 
receiver of goods, knowing them to be stolen, for which offence 
Br- — n-— was tried, but acquitted. 

(o) Several printsellers, who carry their heads very high, have 
not scrupled, when hard pressed, to raise cash by getting their 
promissory notes discounted ; upon which occasion P—t—r has 



122 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



P — t — r Br — wne. 



To these I might the names inscribe, 
Of grov'ling; venders — wretched tribe ; 
Such as appears in M — id — n-lane f 
Where B — go holds his greasy reign : 
Or sloven P — rs — ns reft of wits, 
Old Gr — n and son oft ta'en with fits 
Of preaching methodism rank ; 
G — rge H — rd — ng fam'd for artful prank : 
And him whose folly I reveal, 
C — ry, who though well known to deal 
Of false pride bound by silly spells, 
Would have it thought he never sells (p). 



no doubt taken good care to get a handsome douceur for his ad- 
vance of THE READY. 

(p) B— go is proverbial for dirt and grease, as no print, how- 
ever clean when purchased by him, is again issued from the shop 



CHALC0GRAPH1MANIA. 123 



P — t — r Br — wne. 



Another race might here be nam'd, 
Were not the modest Muse asham'd; 



without bearing marks of filth. P—rs—ns, from his oddity of 
manner in fancying he has no inside, is by his brethren of the 
trade esteemed to be non compos mentis. The Gr — ns, senior and 
junior, may be heard every Sabbath-day ranting forth their metho- 
distical trash to congregations just as enlightened and green as 
themselves. The father, prior to his embarking as a printseller in 
W— lis Street, used to handle the tremendous cook-shop carving 
knife, being a vender of boiled beef and plum-pudding. G — rge 
H— rd — ng, who buys and sells, thinks himself a monstrous clever 
artist ; the use however which he makes of his talents at drawing 
is as follows : C — If— Id having found out a Mrs. Aberdeen, who 
is the last descendant of the Caesar family, and possesses many of 
their old portraits, procured permission to have them copied, be- 
ing desirous of getting them engraved and brought out in a vo- 
lume, accompanied with biographical sketches. The artist em- 
ployed upon this occasion was H- — rd — ng, who, unknown to 
C — If— Id, made duplicate and triplicate drawings, which he sur- 
reptitiously disposed of to S—th — rl — nd and other gentlemen. 
C — r—y, though an itinerant printseller, parading the country with 
a portfolio, and knocking at every door, is, notwithstanding, so 



124 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

P— t— r Br— wne. 

Whose minds by vicious thoughts deprav'd, 

With prints disgusting are enslav'd j 

While others bear the bestial store, 

To foul pollution's deadly door. 

Such names the poet will not trace (q), 

But stamp them of corruption's race; 



ridiculously conceited, that he would fain have it believed he is 
no vender, but a gentleman collector. To these specimens of 
dirty insignificant Chalcographians we might add H—rb—rt, for- 
merly prompter of the Circus, who wrote an account of L — mb—th 
palace, and also published his L-— w«£— na, having gleaned his 
knowledge from C—lf—ld. 

(q) A variety of names might be enrolled as illustrative of this 
disgusting propensity, but from feelings of delicacy, the writer 
refrains from giving them publicity. Nor is it at all unfrequent 
to find in the library drawers of deceased persons of titled as well 
as plebeian rank, books and engravings of the most shameless 
description, whereas the late possessors were supposed during life 
to have nothing but the fear of God before their eyes. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 125 



L— - nffm — n and Co. 



Wherefore I'll fly the bestial den, 

To greet once more the haunts of men. 

In Row far fam'd call'd Pater-Noster, 
Where genius some pretend to foster, 
Who bowels of compassion show, 
Like Tigers warm'd with fury's glow, 
My Muse alights to tune the strain, 
And note imperial L — ngm — ris reign ; 
Who ranks of publishers the first, 
Back'd by old stager — honest H — rst; 
While R — s f now free from western storm, 
Drinks hpb-a-nob with Br — wn and Orm—. 
This hydra-firm of hot-press fame, 
Not satisfied with modern game, 
Of books antique, true pedagogues, 

Have issu'd high-priz'd Catalogues; 
And last of all the steps to mount 
Of Chalcography, famous fount, 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



D— rt— n. 



They sell works ready illustrated (r), 
That minds rapacious may be sated ; 
Wherefore of Cits without denial, 
This is the grand collector's dial, 
By Chalcographian rays supplied, 
Pictorial works all cut and dried. 
So gracious city heroes now, 
I wish ye well, and make my bow. 

Now last of this third flight partaker, 
Must stand recorded D — rt — n, quaker ; 



(r) This firm, which is unquestionably the greatest in England, 
has been attacked with the Chalcographimania and Bibliomania, 
in addition to the immense traffic carried on in modern literature. 
Though publishers in general are very far from being liberal to 
Poetasters, it must be confessed that in some instances these gen- 
tlemen have not proved themselves penurious, witness W—lt—r 
Sc~tt, whose prolific Muse has received ample recompence for her 
Pegasian flights. 






CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 127 



D— rt— i 



By Catalogus oft attended, 
And with his cash alike befriended; 
Who profits once from Granger got, 
Six hundred pounds to boil the pot (s), 
When thinking ev'ry Granger won'd, 
Illustrated, prove just as good ; 
He tried deep speculation new, 
Which soon he had good cause to rue ; 



(s) D— rt— n and H— rv — y were the purchasers of the 
M—rq — is of D— n — g—l's Granger, which they cut to pieces, 
selling the portraits separately, and thus realized upwards of six 
hundred pounds profit. Flushed with this good fortune, and igno- 
rantly conceiving that all illustrated Grangers would prove equally 
beneficial, they soon after bought another at R,obins's auction room, 
which was made up by W — 11— m Sc—tt, and had belonged to 
Mr. Garrick, nephew of the great performer, when lo ! on dis« 
posing of the pictorial work in question, a larger sum was 
lost by this second speculation, than was realized by the former 
purchase, 



128 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

D— .rt— n. 

Losing by second just as much 
As fate by former bade him clutch ; 
Thus, like the homxd, when passing brook 
With meat in jaws, — resolv'd to hook 
The same reflected in the stream, 
He lost the substance for the dream : 
So hungry D — rt — n glutton still, 
Conceiving fortune slave at will ; 
Devoid of knowledge, stake let fall, 
And, fool-like, thus was chous'd of all ! 



END OF BOOK THE THIRD. 



IBoofc t&e jFoutt^ 



BOOK THE FOURTH. 



llle sinistrorsum, hie dextrorsum, units utrique 
Error, sed variis illudit partibus omnes. 

HOR. 

One steers to right, and to the left another, 

By Folly led, each ranks his neighbour's brother. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIANS. 

J^ ROM those who cater for each buyer, 
The Muse shall wing her flight still higher, 
And on page Chalcographian trace, 
Those names renown'd assuming place 
In sage Collectors envied band, 
Where Catalogus takes his stand. 
K 2 



132 CH ALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Q n, P ss E— z— th. 

First in the ranks our nation's queen fa), 
A Chalcographian dame is seen, 
Yet though she buys is always wary, 
Of precious money passing chary. 
Eliza, Britain's princess too (b), 
Stands register'd among- my crew : 



(a) Her Majesty is a collector for Granger, and possesses many 
valuable Chalcographian specimens. Her method of purchasing 
however is not after the manner of Catalogus, as the Queen, al- 
though fond of portraits, has no less an eye to the value of Mr. 
H&se's Threadneedle impressions. From a channel upon which 
I can rely, I have been informed that had not the present melan- 
choly change occurred in the state of our gracious Monarch's 
mental sanity, it was his intention to have commenced collector, in 
which case, from the few purchases he had made, there is no 
doubt but that liberality would have characterized his conduct in 
the prosecution of this pursuit. 

(b) This Princess possesses all the spirit of collecting, and 
would willingly multiply her stores with increased celerity, did 
she possess in a greater degree the means of gratifying her predi- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 133 



Rev. J. Bi— ad. 



Of prints she boasts full many lots, 
And shows whole legions of tea-pots, 
And daily would add more and more, 
Had she. of cash sufficient store. 
And thou departed Br — nd appear (c), 
To add fresh lustre to my sphere, 
Thou who alike would'st buy and sell, 
As Catalogue knows full well. 



lection. In addition to prints, old china tea-pots, I have also been 
informed, constitute another hobby-horse of this distinguished 
personage, whose liberal spirit claims the sincere wish on my part 
that success may crown her utmost expectations. 

(c) The above clerical character, who was the dupe of J— y 
S — tt, as I have before noticed, began his collecting career at a 
very early period ; consequently the rarest specimens of Chalco- 
graphy passed through his hands. He was however mean in 
purchasing, and as complete a Print-Trader as any one who 
publicly professes himself a buyer and seller of such commo- 
dities. 



134 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

S— th— 1— nd, B— ndl— y. 

Come let me lead thee by the hand, 
From Gow'r Street noted S — th — I — nd (d), 
Where lost in Chalcographian cares, 
Thy mind forgets rough Russian Bears, 
Of which as chief thou mak'st an halt, 
F 'or porridge gaining stores of salt. 
Next sapient B — ndl — y bearing stamp (e), 
For Chalcography naught can damp, 



(d) Mr. S — n— d, who bas of late figured prominently as an 
Illustrator of Clarendon and Burnet, is Pr — s — d—nt of the 
R—ss—n company. In purchasing however he has become cau- 
tious, having at the commencement of his mania been sufficiently 
bitten by the Scottish Tarantula. 

(e) This gentleman to whom I have dedicated my volume, 
is possessed of Chalcographian and Bibliomanian stores, which 
are perhaps unrivalled both for quantity and excellence in quality. 
On the score of sound judgment no collector will hesitate to allow 
him to possess unrivalled pre-eminence. The writer therefore 
cannot better wind up the present note, than by wishing him a 



CHALC0GRAPH1 MANIA. 135 



D — dsw- 



Come and illume my learned page, 

Endowed with scientific rage ; 

For if experience e'er was known, 

To rear in mind sound judgment's throne, 

Thou may'st dominion justly claim, 

And boast the blooming wreath of Fame. 

D — dsw — U with pain I now recall (f), 
Fell fate, that robb'd thee of thine all, 
I mean those stores that fell a prey, 
To raging fire's consuming sway, 



long continuance of health to enjoy the collection which he has 
accumulated with so much industry and perseverance. 

(/) Since the fatal event above recorded, which robbed this 
officer of his superb collection, he seems to have relinquished all 
idea of recommencing Chalcographian. Should the m&nia how- 
ever once more take place, I wish him success in the under- 
taking. 



136 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

D— ce. 

Whose loss made Catalogus sigh, 
While tears distill'd from either eye. 

Stor'd with the reading- of the schools, 
Moves D — ce great chronicler of fools (g), 



(g) Mr. D — ce, who has long figured in the annals of collect- 
ing, has also rendered himself conspicuous in the literary world, 
by publishing the work referred to in the above line, and I have 
only to regret that my absence from England at the period when 
the work in question was preparing for the press, prevented 

me from giving Mr. D some information, which might 

have met his approbation. Perhaps even the loan of the unique 
cut of Will Summers, from which the plate accompanying the 
present volume is executed, would not have been inconsequential 
to Mr. D — e, as affording a complete specimen of the costume of 
that jester at the period of Henry the Eighth. I certainly have 
to regret that the pamphlet, which in all probability belonged to 
the print, does not accompany the plate in question. It is 
scarcely known that an original picture, painted upon the finest 
cambric, is now at Althorpe, the seat of Earl Spencer, represent- 



book ir. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 137 

E. Sp — nc — r, D. of D — sh — re. 

And warm'd by Sp — nc — r kindred peer, 
Behold his Gr — ce of D sh—re (h), 



ing Henry the Eighth and Catherine of Arragon, with Will 
Summers the jester, appearing between them, which relating to the 

Fools of the Great, would have been applicable to Mr. D 's 

purpose. This gentleman is possessed of many very choice and 
valuable articles, particularly in old French literature ; his con- 
duct has uniformly displayed a correctness of judgment and 
the most refined taste, while his manners, though apparently re- 
served, evince every characteristic of the complete gentleman. 

(h) His grace, who purchased the B — p of E — y's library, as 
well as that of a foreign nobleman, is reported to have lost very 

heavy sums to L — d Y th, a circumstance which created 

much astonishment in my mind, as I did imagine that this elevated 
nobleman would have spurned all association with a personage 
whose delight is to attend Milling-Matches and Cock-Fights, 
while his society consists of such individuals as L — d B — ym — e, 
the lately executed Slender Billy, Crib, Molineux, Gulley, and 
Bill Gibbons. As for the loss of his rib, formerly Mademoiselle 
F—n—ni, who was claimed by two fathers, and preferred the em- 
braces of G — I J — n — t to those of her fiery -ivhiskered husband ; 



13S CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



D. of D— sh— e. 



W ho better merited commending-, 
"While on collections thousands spending-, 



his L — ds — p makes up tor bis loss by constantly attend- 
ing Duke's Place, dec. where he finds all his desires grati- 
fied. 

As 1 have made mention of Bill Gibbons, I will now, by way of 
exposing the degradation of our nobility, subjoin an anecdote 
which is absolutely a matter of fact : Gibbons having a dog which 
he wanted to shew to tbe AT — q — s of H — nt — y, son of the 
D — e of G — rd — n and his late D — Av-eatching D — ch — ss, 
called at the mansion, where he found two very respectable 
tradesmen attending in the hall. Bill, addressing one of the foot- 
men, said, that he knew the Marquis was at home and wanted to 
see him, adding, that his name was Bill Gibbons. The tone and 
manner of this applicant being extremely Jlippant or kiddyish, the 
attendant hesitated, when Billy, «ho was not to be put off, con- 
tinued thus : " Come, do you choose to go or not ; for by G — d 
" if yon keep me waiting, D — me but I'll kick up a hell of a clatter 
" in the house." The footman accordingly went to his noble 
master, saying, that a man named Gibbons wanted to see him. 
" Mr. Gibbons, I suppose you mean," replied his lordship, "show 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA, 139 

B— ng. 

Than losing weighty sums at play, 
With Y — m — tKs Lord thus fool'd away. 

Lo ! hobbling B — ng quite antiquated (i), 
Long harbour mind infuriated, 
Whene'er he hear of dainty food, 
Black-letter tract with cut in wood ; 



f * him up immediately." Accordingly up went Bill, who told the 
M—rq—is what had happened in the hall, when — wonderful to 
relate — the nobleman ordered up his two attendants and dis- 
charged them : but, upon the intercession of Gibbons, they were 
replaced. Well may we exclaim, O temporal O mores! 

(i) The H—nbl — individual here mentioned, who was a Peer of 
the Realm, possessed a few such choice articles as The Paradise 
of Dainty Devices, and Walton's Angler, the best edition, with 
Lombarfs plates, for the latter of which he never remembered to 
pay the dealer from whom he purchased it, so far back as the 
year 1798. 



140 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK IV. 



Sir G. P. T— rn— r. 



Not so P—ge T—rn—r, baronet (j), 
Whom venders all gave direful sweat ; 
Printsellers fam'd, arch picture-dealers, 
With other pickers fell, and stealers, 
Who did on purse as furious pounce, 
As on its prey remorseless Ounce, 
Which plac'd him on repentance stool, 
Wherefore he plays no more the fool. 



(j ) Our young B — r— n — t, who is not only litigious, but 
meanness personified, was some time back seized with a universal 
cacoithes, at which period his hall was every day crowded with 
venders of birds, beasts, shells, armour, stained glass, pictures, 
prints, insects, reptiles, with a string of et cceterte that would fill 
an atlas folio ; but having been most completely imposed upon, 
and well knowing the value of money, he on a sudden closed his 
doors upon these harpies, who are thus debarred from plucking 
their dainty pigeon. Be it remembered however, that many of 
these Nicknackatarians are not paid to the present hour, while 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 141 



Oss — It — n, C — sw — y. 



Lord Oss — It — n I now pen lays on (k), 
Who Grammont' s history must emblazon ; 
That cit-like takes especial pride, 
Procuring" portraits in Cheap-side, 
Or rather bearing stores away, 
Ne'er thinking- of due payment's day. 

Great C — sw — y known by sirname Dick (I), 
Whose affectation makes men sick, 



others are involved in law-suits for the procurement of their de- 
mands. 

(ft) The peer in question, who is occupied in illustrating the 
Memoirs of Grammont during his residence in England at the 
period of Charles II. is renowned for leaving his name during a 
long period upon the ledgers of the printselling tribe. The cause 
of his lordship's predilection for the above work is said to be on 
account of his wife, who claims alliance with the Grammont 
family. 



142 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

C — sw — y. 

With confidence of Raphael, struts, 
And leg- in folly's mire oft puts; 



(I) Mr. R — ch — rd C — sw — y, royally denominated Dirty 
Dicky, ranks bosom-friend with the son of the D — e of M — l- 
b — gh, in proof of which our miniature-painter always fills the 
card-racks on either side of the chimney-piece with notes and 
cards penned by that noble personage. The mania of this artist 
is to possess impressions from all Rubens' performances ; of which 
he has not unfrequently availed himself in making his own designs, 
and to such a pitch was this predilection carried, that he actually 
wanted to purchase the mansion at Antwerp, which that sublime 
painter inhabited, but was prevented for the cogent reason assigned 
on the opposite page. This however is not the only instance of 
Dicky's caco'ethes, whose eccentric brain, crammed with all the vision- 
ary chimeras of Jacob Behmen, Swedenberg, and other fantastic 
unravellers of fate, may well rank upon a par with Doctor Faustus 
or the Cheshire Nixon, so that he is little better than a Mother Ship- 
ton in male attire. As I have in this note treated upon the subject 
of particular predilections, I will again record the name of Mr. 
Samuel Ireland, who was devoted to the works of Hogarth and 
Mortimer, both oil paintings and drawings as well as prints: indeed 
so great was his collection of the first mentioned artist's produc- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 143 

C — sw — y, B — nks. 

As proud in sharing" Bl — ndf — rd*s nod, 

As if the Marquis were a God. 

His toil hath been to imitate, 

A Rubens' style, — sublimely great, 

Nay frenzy caus'd such mind's expansion, 

He needs would buy the Antwerp mansion, 

But dearth in purse the wish repelling", 

Ejected Dicky from said dwelling. 

What dame now lists my knight's professions, 
'Tis B — nks, collector of processions (m), 



tions, that he had only one competitor for the palm of victory, 
in the person of the old Earl of Exeter, who died prior to the last 
inheritor of that title. 

(m) This lady, who possesses an excellent disposition, has a 
taste for processions of every description, for which she is in the 
habit of paying very liberally ; while another female collector is to 
be seen in the person of Mrs. Fl—xm — n, wife of the celebrated 



144 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. book i 

H— 11— ngs— rth. 

Sir J — s — h's, sister whose renown 
Makes Catalogus low bend down, 
And in true token of — " his duty, 
" Honour the shadow of her shoe-tie." 

Now comes a niggard child of earth, 
From Queen's Square, stingy H — 11 — nys — rth (n), 



statuary, who is doatingly fond of every pictorial performance 
from the pencil of the justly celebrated Stothard. 

Having made mention of a statuary, I will here record the name of 
G — h— g — n, the sculptor, who is bitten with the bust madness, which 
he has pursued with unparalleled avidity, not having modelled less 
than two hundred, nor be it forgotten that in hitting off likenesses, 
he is particularly fortunate, witness the Bust of Lord Nelson, who 
never sat to any artist but G--h — g— n, whom he attended seven 
times for that purpose, being most particularly anxious that every 
lineament should prove the precise type of its original. 

(n) Mr. H th, who is in pursuit of choice specimens of Marc 

Antonio, and all the Italian artists, is guided in purchasing by the 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 145 



H — ns:s — th. 



Who spends as free in heaping store, 
As Jew would give to Christian poor ; 
And hath a brain so passing- fecund, 
He knows First Charles preceded Second ; 
But as to vouching for aught more 
On his research I close the door; 
And while I thus wield probing pen, 
On fam'd collectors acumen, 



puffs that appear in the catalogues, his own judgment not being 
sufficient to detect a retouched impression, which he will purchase 
for a really fine one. 

As I have been speaking of particular manias, that of collect- 
ing caricatures must not be neglected, the most masterly speci- 
mens of Chalcography having issued from the shop of Miss 
Humphries, in Saint James's Street, being the productions of 
Gillwray's prolific genius, who might even rank in his line upon a 
par with Hogarth himself. The present unfortunate mental de- 
rangement of that artist, may consequently be regarded as a seri- 
ous event in the annals of Caricature Collecting, 



146 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Poet's Address to Catalogus. 



Some lines instructive here may tend, 
To prove I labour to befriend 
Mine hero, whom I now endite to, 
And urg'd by common sense — thus write to. 



POET S ADDRESS TO CATALOGUS. 



Delpiuura appingit sylvis, in fluctibus aprum. 

HORACE. 

The Dolphin's form he paints in woods, 
And shows the boar in ocean's floods. 



Good Sir, I plainly now must speak, 
For though mine hero — still I'll tweak, 
Proboscis whensoe'er I please, 
Since sugar-plums won't cure disease, 



CHALC0GRAPH1MANIA. 147 



Ignorance of Chalcographians. 



To learned Chalcographian band, 
I now extend corrective hand, 
For after conning- o'er and o'er, 
The extent of your mental store, 
You prove e'en in your lov'd pursuit, 
Like idiots, gaping all, and mute. 
Perhaps at this you'll frown and flout, 
And swear that facts can't bear me out, 
But Truth subservient is at will, 
To dose you with hard griping pill. 
But to the point : — Show one Collector, 
'Midst all your host that proves reflector, 
And knows each foreign knight and sage. 
That suits his illustrative page, 
Unless beneath the name be writ, 
Date, rank, and class, with all that's fit : 
For me I've Grangers vast look'd o'er (o), 
Of Burnet seen stupendous store (p), 
]L2 



148 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Ignorance of Chalcographians. 



Huge Pennants — Chalcographic dons (q), 
And Crowles deem'd first of Clarendons, 



(o) Among other illustrated volumes of this author, I cannot 
help enumerating Mr. Townley's in particular, whose rare speci- 
mens I have very frequently dwelt upon with infinite delight. 

(jj) In S — r J — $ L — k — s pictorial Burnet, among other 
egregious mistakes, which I did not note at the time it was 
offered for public inspection, I however particularly well remem- 
ber remarking, that he had inserted the portrait of one Main- 
waring, a physician, instead of the father who was a statesman. 

{q) Mr Cr — wl — 's Pennant, which was enriched from the ma- 
terials of runaway T—mmy Th — mps — n, of Hebraic extraction, 
is, taking the tout ensemble, a passable specimen of illustration, 
though many insignificant prints are inserted which disgrace the 
pages. The Burnet and Clarendon of this collector have to boast 
numerous very rare specimens of Chalcography ; but in these 
works, as in the above instance of S — r J— s L — k — 's blunder, 
there are the most flagrant errors : and in respect to the Infanta 
of Spain, mentioned by Pennant, I have ninety-nine times in the 



book iv CHALCOGRAPH1MANIA. 149 

Ignorance of Chalcographians. 

With pain I then the laugh have check'd, 
To view such men as should reflect, 
Imperial hot-press'd paper grace, 
With son's in lieu of daddy's face : 
While vice versa, through life's run, 
Papa hath stood in place of son. 
Thus ere tie-wig grac'd napper dense, 
I've grandson seen take precedence, 
And stand for grandpapa, who wore 
On sconce no wig, but nature's store. 



hundred seen a decorative portrait pasted opposite the page, which 
has no more to do with the lady whom Prince Charles was to 
have espoused, than I bear an affinity to the Great Kham of 
Tartary. Similar mistakes occur in the insertion of portraits of 
the Nassau family. I shall now close this subject by simply 
stating that in adverting to the character of the late Mr. Cr — wle, 
as a gentleman and a collector he was ostentatious, proud, and ex- 
tremely mean in following up the Chalcographian pursuit, of 
which he was desirous of ranking the most heroic of champions. 



150 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK IV. 



Ignorance of Chalcographians. 



In fine, Collectors, who presume, 
All things to know, ne'er judge costume, 
Each toils alone vast page to cover, 
And rank a Chalcoyraphian lover (r). 



(r) Lord M — k K — rr, before mentioned, is possessed of an 
illustrated Bible, wherein is inserted, as I bave been given to un- 
derstand, an engraving of Magdalma Passe, being a representa- 
tion from profane bistory of tbe Lycian Shepherds transformed 
into frogs for refusing water to Latona. This print however is 
placed opposite to the page which records the discovery of Moses 
in the bull-rushes by Pharoah's daughter. Being thus occupied 
on the topic of illustrated Bibles, I must not omit to reprehend in 
the most pointed terms, the loose and indecent prints that fre- 
quently appear as pictorial embellishments of holy writ, which 
are much more framed to grace the annals of a brothel, than 
stand recorded on the scriptural page. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 151 



Theatrical Cacoethes. 



THEATRICAL CACOETHES. 



■ Unus utrique error 

Sed variis illudit partibus. 



Each mind the self-same error sways, 
But mocks them all in different ways. 



Now humbly treading- in the shoes, 
Of K — mble I must not refuse 
To W — Idr — n place who doats on plays (s), 
That acted were in ancient days, 



(*) The Thespian now under review, has always evinced a desire 
to possess theatric curiosities, but the state of his purse has un- 
fortunately damped his ardour. He was formerly a book-vender 
in Middle-row, and has presented himself to the public as a dra- 



152 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA.: 



Theatrical Cacoethes. 



With portraits too of such as wore, 
The sock and buskin heretofore : 
As for his prowess on the stage, 
He may possess some mental rage, 
But hearing is a certain test 
With sight — that proves his bad's the best 
For sov'reign nature hath denied, 
That he should e'er expertly ride 
His hobby : — strutting scenic god, 
Wherefore he ranks a Thespian clod : 
As Player thus the Author s brother, 
Just skill'd in one, as well as t'other. 



matic writer as well as player ; but I am sorry it does not lie in 
my power to pass any encomium upon his poetry or performance. 
Notwithstanding this conclusive stricture, I really wish Mr. 
W — dr — n success in all his undertakings, as he is a quiet, in- 
offensive, and well-meaning man. 

Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 153 

Theatrical Cacoethes. 

Mark L — chf — Id dashing quart and tierce (t), 
With love Shakesperian wond'rous fierce ; 



(0 Mr. L— chf— Id, the friend of Messrs. B—d—n and H-—11, 
is said to be as well read in Shakespearian lore, as any of his re- 
nowned commentators ; while his pen is monthly employed to 
blazon the pages of the Theatric Mirror. This gentleman, who 
purchases every thing relating to the stage, is frequently seen in 
the shop of play-vending B — rk — r, of Russell-street, in order 
to be in the vortex of dramatic literature ; but the effect of his 
mania was never rendered so conspicuous as when he essayed the 
arduous part of Richard the Third, in which scenic attempt how- 
ever he completely failed. It was owing to this circumstance that 
when at the masquerade a short time after, a gentleman present 
chancing to recognise Mr. L — chf — Id's person, accosted him in 
the following words : 

" If Richard's fit to live, let Richmond fall ;" 

which appropriate exclamation so offended the would-be Roscius, 
that he not only wanted to see the face of the person in question, 
but also talked loudly of exchanging cards, a challenge, and so 
forth. 



154 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. EOOK it. 



Theatrical Cacoethes. 



Who shares with Catalogus treat, 
O'er prints theatric, when they meet ; 
And scribbles too — dear recreation, 
For page of monthly publication : — 
Nor be O ! Muse, forgot the night 
When in Third Richard's costume dight, 
He did the arduous feat essay, 
And ranted thus some hours away. 
Wherefore let foes say what they can, 
He ranks sfa^e-BiTTEN gentleman ; 
Like Coates theatric connoisseur, 
Call'd Fashion's famous Amateur, 
Who boasts from dames bound in his fillets, 
A countless pile of tender billets (u), 



(u) This conceited personage, who has enacted sufficient to 
entitle him to the appellation off— I, so long as he shall continue 
to play his part in this world, has absolutely the vanity to boast 
that he has upwards of one thousand letters from the ladies, which 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 155 



Theatrical Cacoe'thes. 



Which he unopened hoards to vex 
Poor disappointed female sex. 

With potent dose of L — chf- — d's pill, 
View Play-house Mirror, famous H — 11, 
Who gorges on poetic lore 
Of ancient date, and boasts a store 
With prints conjoin'd ; which aught impart 
Descriptive of the Scenic art (v). 



he preserves unopened. — Query. If they continue sealed up, 
how can this connoisseur ascertain for a certainty that they are 
the productions of a female hand 2 

(v) Our collector, editor, and play-goer, has weighty reasons 
and sterling arguments to account for his theatric mania, witness, 
Veluti in Speculum. Some years back when the heyday of the 
blood was more predominant than at present, Mr. H — 11 no doubt 
remembers a tale that was current in the lobbies of Covent 
Garden and Drury Lane theatres, respecting a gentleman who 
went from the playhouse with a Cyprian, and remained at her 



156 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Theatrical Cacoethes. 

Of mimic pow'rs the chief now view, 
Our Chaleographian course pursue, 
M — th — ws collector of each print (w), 
That shows of Garrick's phiz the dint, 
And folios eke intent to grace, 
With prints that blazon scenic race : 



lodgings till the ensuing morning, when in the place of leaving an 
Abraham Newland upon the dressing-table, the female votary of 
pleasure after the gentleman's departure, found the present to be 
no other than one of Goioland's Lotion bills, which bore a striking 
resemblance to a bank-note. This was thought a good hoax, but 
the expressive title of bilk continued long after to accompany the 
name of the person in question. 

(w) The extraordinary and versatile powers of this comedian 
do not stand in need of any panegyric, as it is quite sufficient to 
witness the exertion of his talents, which must command admira- 
tion. Under the guidance of C — r — m the printseller, as I have 
been informed, M—th — ws is forming a collection of theatricals, 
being particularly anxious to possess every thing relating to the 
inimitable Garrick, 



book ir. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 157 

Theatrical Cacoethes. 

Nor be the fam'd pursuit pass'd o'er, 
Belov'd of Suett, now no more (x), 
Barbatics pride that made him crazy, 
Old Caxon, Scratch, Tie, Bob, and Jazy, 



(x) The late Mr. Suett, the comedian, whose eccentricity and 
comic powers still live in the memory of the public, had col- 
lected a vast number of Old Wigs, which unfortunately were 
destroyed by fire, and among the rest was one of those append- 
ages of the head, said to have belonged to King Charles II. which 
Suett bought at the sale of the effects of old Rawle, the antiqua- 
rian. As the theatrical powers of M — th — ws are of the broad 
comic cast, which was Suett's characteristic vein, the former, no 
doubt, actuated by a similar cacoethes, has taken to the Wig 
Mania, since it is an old and received opinion that wits will jump, 
As I am upon the subject of an article appertaining to dress, I can 
do no other than candidly avow, that I should feel proud to possess 
the relics forwarded by order of the invincible Lord Nelson to 
Lady Hamilton which were the several articles of apparel in 
which iie was habited when the fatal ball deprived that gallant 
admiral of his life, and the country of one of its bravest de» 
fenders. 



158 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Picture Mania. 



Which Charles, like predecessor buys, 
Esteeming each a wond'rous prize. 



PICTURE MANIA. 



Animura pictura pascit iaani. 



"Tis fitting now we pass some strictures, 
On such as boast a rage for pictures ; 
Who like friend Catalogus con 
The page renown'd of Pilkington : 
Wherefore sage leader of the van, 
Comes St—ff — rd's Marquis, mighty man (y), 



(y) As the Marquis of Wellington ranks generalissimo on the 



book iv. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 159 

Picture Mania. 

Who had so strong" the raging fit on, 
To make election of one Br — t — n, 
As register of pictures grand, 
Though Painting he don't understand (z). 

Next red-hot as a Salamander 
View D — v — ds — n great Alexander («), 



Peninsula, even so does St—ff—rd's peer boast the title of com- 
mander-in-chief among the picture collectors of our island : nor 
can I in justice deny that many specimens in this nobleman's 
gallery are superlative examples of the graphic art. 

(z) Mr. Br — t — n, the publisher of some very choice specimens 
of architectural gothic remains, was elected Fellow of the Anti- 
quarian Society, on account of his enthusiastic research, as I 
conjecture, into stone walls ; for independently of their pictorial 
representation, I cannot divine a cause why the nomination in 
question should have taken place. To the present personage also 
devolved the task of cataloguing the pictures of the last-mentioned 
nobleman: a labour he was in no respect capable of judiciously 



160 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Picture Mania. 



Renown'd Contractor, who will buy 
Books, prints, and pictures, manfully ; 
With just such judgment as appears 
To grace the creature with long ears. 

Lo ! next enacting bold his part, 
Comes Bristol D — v — s, christ'ned Hart (b), 



performing, having never been inducted to any refined knowledge 
of the graphic art. 

(a) This gentleman, who is immersed in the dunnest smoke of 
Boeotian ignorance, has nothing but money to recommend him : 
backed however by such a requisite auxiliary, he stands forward a 
great collector, purchasing at random, without either taste, judg- 
ment, or science. 

(&) Mr. H—t D—v—s, member of parliament, is deeply in- 
fected with the Picture Mania, which money, acquired na that 
emporium of ignorance, the city of Bristol, enabled him to indulge 
ia its fullest extent. 



book iy. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 161 

Picture Mania. 

State pillar sage as eyes can see, 
That adds to name an M. and P. 
A banker who in arts ranks shallow, 
But famous judge of Russian tallow (c) ; 



(c) Some years back this senatorial banker, realized £.40,000 
in one day, by a lucky speculation in Russian tallow ; but as I 
am now occupied upon the topic of a Bristolian lover of pic- 
tures, I cannot resist the desire of giving my reader the following 
poetical quotation from an unknown writer, as highly descriptive 
of the Bristol race, when considered under the head of the arts. 

Of the arts I must speak, so at once to define, 
A Bristol Apelles — behold but the sign 
Of red rampant Lion, a Savage and Bell, 
Their talents such daubs comprehensively tell ; 
While taste is display'd in a breach of those rules, 
Which genius has sanction'd and use of the schools, 
Here quantum of colours on pallet ne'er fail 
To make Iris blush, and outvie peacock's tail ; 
The true line of beauty your optics can't trace, 
In figures possessing no vestige of grace. 
M 



162 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Picture MaDia. 

Whose intellect burns just as bright, 
As glimmer of a farthing light : 



Whose outlines display — or I'm not a bard, 

True emblems of adamant, tasteless, and hard. 

O ! artists of Somerset Place, prithee say, 

Are such the aspirers to envied R. A. 

Shall vestments of pinks, bines, and reds, nature shock, 

Arraying each portrait, a true barber's block ! 

Shall faces of chalk and vermilion's hot glow, 

Shall hands, precise models of pale lumpy dough, 

In short, can endowments like these prefer claim, 

To ought pictatorial, worthy of fame 1 

Or if at their landscapes a slight glance we take, 

The trees are green brooms, and the skies all opake ; 

In lieu of the rivers transparently bright, 

'Tis an expanse of azure, or one plane of white; 

The villas all staring prove wond'rous defective 

In that most essential of points — true perspective. 

While cows, dogs, and horses, like sticks void of motion, 

Of playthings from toyshop convey a just notion. 

Cuyp, Waterloo, Wouvermans, Ruysdale, they scorn, 

Poor souls, if in Bristol, they'd all pine forlorn ; 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 163 



Picture Mania. 



But all is one, for now you know, 
'Tis money makes the mare to go. 



Their just compositions no patrons would find, 

Brisfolians for nature possess not the mind ; 

When they part with their guineas they claim what is rare, 

A Picture of Pictures, to make people stare, 

Determin'd they'll get what is sterling for gold, 

Their uniform practice I'll instant unfold : 

To those tenets ciose sticking of Cocker profound, 

They purchase not Pictures, but Paint by the pound! 

O shame ! Science droops while true artists deplore, 

That Genius at Bristol does nothing but snore. 

Yet ah I sons of lucre, tho' bound by the spell 

Of ignorance black as the dun shades of hell, 

Though Boeotia's dark Erebus hangs o'er your spheres, 

Enshrouding your senses and eke asses ears, 

In short tho' of paiatingye deem yourselves judges, 

Your knowledge in this at a snail's pace slow trudges, 

Like glazier's as bright; who, for publican shows, 

On shutter fine checkers in orderly rows. 

Yet do not despair, friends, ye still boast a charm, 

To kindle in painters a fire brisk and warm; 



M 2 



164 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Picture Mania. 



Next fetter'd by pictorial spells 
A It — v — sly comes, who buys and sells (d), 



I mean not of genius the flame trite and old, 

Extinguish'd in Bristol — I mean, Sirs, your gold ; 

Since lucre makes daubers clean canvass defile, 

And paint not by yard or by ell — but the mile ; 

In fine they have sense to avow ye are ninnies, 

And all that they crave is your guineas, your guineas; 

Your gold they will have, they declare by the pallet, 

And knock ye down, using the brush for the mallet ; 

That weapon tremendous which nothing withstands, 

Making dull heads more dull, when design'd by such hands, 

In brief it requires no small sense to decide, 

Whether artist or cit is to sense most allied; 

But of this I'm convinc'd none would ever aspire, 

To say that conjoin'd they would set Thames on fire. 

But now to discover their learning let's try, 

A task mighty easy betwixt you and I ; 

There's no need to put nice research into fetters, 

When lords of the fine arts do not know their letters ; 

In short I would wager what any dares lay, 

In lieu of a C they'll spell College with K. 



CHALCOGRAPHIJVIANIA. 165 



Picture Mania. 



Since e'en from noble, looking big, 
To wearer of Right Reverend wig; 



(d) The reverend gentleman above quoted, as illustrative of 
my page, may be regarded as a private collector by such indivi- 
duals as do not understand the meaning of the word dealer ; but 
not being altogether a stranger to lexicography, I must certainly 

apply the above term to Mr. R , who ranks a vender as 

well as Smart, Woodburn, or any other of the renowned canvass 
merchants. In addition to the specimens of Chalcographians, 
quoted in my poetic ledger, I must not omit to mention by way of 
addenda, Dog J — nn — ngs, who acquired this canine addition to 
his name from having purchased the celebrated antique of Alci- 

biades's mongrel for one thousand guineas. Mr. J s, who is 

now about ninety years of age, continues infected with a cacoe- 
thes of collecting any thing that is in opposition to what is possess- 
ed by others, wherefore it is merely necessary to say that the 
walking stick of Mr. Tompkins ismadeofasA, whereas the one 
offered him for sale is of elm, but he will instantly demand the 
price, and become the fortunate possessor. Nor let me forget the 
deceased W — Ish P — rt—r, so renowned for embellishing cot- 
tages, and whose taste was consulted in the arrangement of 
Carlton House. This gentleman not only collected for himself, 



166 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA, 



Picture Mania. 



In spite of all each may profess, 
He ranks true dealer, more or less. 

Of modern school supporter fam'd 
Must Leicester's Baronet be nam'd, (e) 



but would undertake to store the mansions of others with pictures 
and antiques, and in short, was a complete Proteus, attuning his 
versatile taste to the wish of every new customer. 

(e) Sir John Leicester, to whom I may well apply the follow- 
ing couplet of Boileau : 

La docte antiquite Jut toujour s venerable, 

Je ne la trouve pas cependant adorable, Boileau. 

Has in a very praiseworthy manner extended his aid to the living, 
by patronizing artists of the present era, of whose performances 
he has to boast a very choice collection. Being thus engaged on 
existing painters, I think it may not be unfair to designate Stothard 
the British Parmegiano ; Wilkie, the Gerrard Dow; Beechy, the 
true delineator of nature ; and West, the Poussin of England. 
With respect to the last mentioned artist's talents, too much en- 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 167 



Picture Mania. 



Who well deserves the meed of praise, 
Rewarding worth of modem days ; 
Such as by Stothard is possess' d, 
A Wilkie, Beechy, or a West. 



comium cannot be lavished upon his celebrated picture of Christ 
Healing the Sick, which performance, thanks to the Prince Regent, 
was prevented from being exported to America. Neither can I 
pass over in silence the late Mr. Barry, who, in order to refute the 
assertions of Zimmermann and the Abbe Dubois, (who have stated 
that the clouded and foggy atmosphere of England incapacitate our 
countrymen from excelling in the graphic art) produced a series 
of paintings, now preserved in the apartments of the Society for 
the Encouragement of Arts, &c. that would confer honour on the 
talents of the most sublime painters of antiquity. 



168 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Xicnackatanan Mania. 



N1CNACKATARIAN MANIA. 



Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studioruni 
Millia. 

Pursuits and passions on this earth we find, 
Vary with increase of the human kind. 



Thus Laving some rare samples shown, 
Of persons to collecting prone, 
Whether as hot as Cambrian Taffy, 
In searching mines of Chalcography ; 
Or making parse at auction debtor, 
For hoards of musty rare black letter; 
And last the crew so passing bold, 
In buying paintings scrubbed and old (J); 

(/) There is perhaps more quackery in picture dealing than in 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 169 

Nicnackatarian Mania. 

Some few alike must now be trac'd 
Each gifted with a diff'rent taste (g) : 
So to commence : — Our R — g — nt Prince, 
A wond'rous passion doth evince, 
To guard in armoury, with care, 
Types of old saddles militaire (h) ; 



any other trade existing, as could be exemplified by Dermer, 
Woodburn, Quaker Smart, and a thousand other Graphimanians ; 
for when we find Sallad-venders in Saint Giles's, and Cabbage- 
sellers in Covent Garden, pretend to a knowledge of painting, 
there is no affixing any boundary to this pictorial cacoethes. 

(§•) Milk hominum species et rerum discolor usus 
Velle mum cuique est nee voto vivitur uno. 

PERSIUS. 

(h) In the armoury at Carlton House, which is arranged with 
infinite taste, there are several specimens of this equestrian accou- 
trement, in collecting samples of which the R — g — nt manifests a 
most unconquerable cacoethes. 



170 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Nicnacli atari an Mania. 

While Charlotte too, with rapture dwells 
On medals, coins, and precious shells (i) ; 
One, warm'd with fine harmonic glow, 
P a y s fifty P oun ds for Pampkilio, 



(i) The P s C te has already embarked with great spirit 

in collecting the above-mentioned articles; nor is she less conversant 
with the old armour, respecting which the late Captain Grose was 
not more deeply skilled. For the shell mania, L — d T — nk—r- 
v — U e is no less renowned : but all living personages of this des- 
cription were surpassed by a collector of antiquity named Rumfius, 
who, although stone-blind, literally gave one thousand pounds 
sterling for a single shell. Of this individual there is a print ex- 
tant, representing him in the art of handling the rare specimen in 
question. As the above couplets relate to royalty, it would be 
highly improper in me not to register the name of the D — ch — s of 
Y—k, who has such a predilection for dogs, that she never goes 
out unattended by troops of those faithful animals; neither let me 
pass unrecorded the mental endowments of this personage, which 
are to my knowledge characterized by every sentiment of tender- 
ness and philanthropy towards the distresses of the suffering and 
the poor. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 171 

Nicnackatariau Mania. 

And would stake hundreds, could he win, 
A fam'd Cremona s violin (k). 
Yet such oft prove but wretched scrapers : 
Others will buy tobacco papers (I), 



(k) Cremona, a town in Italy, was very famous for manufac- 
turers of violins, the makers of which instruments were Amati, 
Straduarins, and Styner, and some of those have been frequently 
sold for two hundred guineas each. 

(I) Independent of the instances above cited, the late Mr. 
Tighe was rendered conspicuous for collecting printed shop-bills, 
of which he possessed a countless hoard. Neither must be 
omitted the mention of a lady who has a cacoethes for notes of 
invitation, shop cards, &c. ; from the stj le of writing, and designs 
of which, she forms her opinion of the lady, gentleman, or shop- 
keeper ; nor will she deal with any tradesman, the design and 
wording of whose card does not betoken what constitutes in her 
estimation a fair and honest dealer. Although the ensuing mania 
bears no reference whatsoever to the above-mentioned instances, I 
cannot refrain from enrolling it, being rendered conspicuous in the 
person of Mr. N— rr — s, of Alb — rm — rle Street, who has such 



172 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Nicnackatarian Mania. 

Who ne'er once dreamt while quaffing swipes, 
Of short-cut, and tobacco-pipes : 
Samples we have of some, whose hopes 
Concentrate in the hangman's ropes (m) : 



an assortment of snuff boxes, that lie makes a boast of never taking 
two pinches of that pungent dust from the same tabatiere. 

(m) It is absolutely a fact that this cacotthes is cherished by 
Mr. Urq — h — it, a gentleman of respectability, who has bargained 
with Jack Ketch at so much per rope, to which he affixes a label, 
bearing the name of the criminal executed, with a statement of the 
crime for which he suffered. Of course, though this personage 
may pay exorbitantly for many of the hempen specimens which 
have not curtailed the existence of very noted characters, yet he is 
sufficiently remunerated when delinquents like Colonel Despard, 
Bellingham, the assassin of Mr. Perceval, or a sanguinary Wil- 
liams, terminate their career at the gallows. The recent mention 
of Despard brings to my remembrance the mania of Mr. 
H — vis — de, of surgical fame, whom I must usher into notice as a 
great collector of masks, taken from the countenances of deceased 
persons of celebrity and notoriety, in the progress of which pur- 
suit he was once disappointed, for upon applying to Mrs. Despard 



book it. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 173 

Nicnackatarian Mania. 

One rusty armour buys amain (w), 

Or painted window's shatter'd pane (o) ; 



for the loan of the mask taken from her husband's visage, subse- 
quent to his execution, the lady in the first instance consented, 
but upon ascertaining that Mr. H — vis — dts request did not 
originate in any sentiment of respect which he felt for the de- 
ceased, but was only made to gratify this particular mania, she in 
consequence refused to accede to his wishes. To this curious 
mania may be subjoined the pursuit of a gentleman formerly re- 
siding in the Temple, who had an apartment decorated with the 
rattles, lanterns, and staves of watchmen, together with the 
knockers wrenched from street doors, which were the trophies of 
his nocturnal perambulations. 

(n) The jE — rl of W — rw -ck is in possession of many curious 
and valuable specimens of this warlike costume of our progenitors, 
which was in some cases rivetted upon the person of the wearer : 
an instance of this kind being recorded by Mezeray, who states, 
that some Italian knights being made prisoners, the victors were 
unable to take off their armour, in consequence of which they 
kindled a large fire, and upon this they roiled the unfortunate 
men, who were literally roasted like lobsters in their shells. 



174 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Nicnackatarian Mania. 



The skins of birds, of beasts, and fishes (p), 
Cups, saucefs, tea-pots, old Delft dishes (q) ; 



(o) Mr. B—kf—rd, of F— nth— 11, the H—n—r—ble Mr. 
B — n g t and the late Lord Orford, together with countless others 
may stand enrolled as doatingly fond of this article, which is 
usually purchased to decorate the library, in order, as Milton em- 
phatically expresses it : 

" To cast a dim religious light." 

As the above line appertains to things sacred, I cannot refrain 
from recording the Methodistical mania, which never was more 
powerfully evinced by the most bigotted catholics, than became 
manifest a short time back at the sale of Huntington's effects at 
Hermes Hill, Pentonville, where, among other precious relics of 
this saint among the ranters, producing extraordinary sums, an 
old arm chair must particularly stand recorded, which, although 
not intrinsically worth fifty shillings, was knocked down to a 
devotee for sixty pounds, while Saunders, the auctioneer, was 
commissioned to go as far as one hundred, had the competitorship 
continued. This chair cacoethes brings to mind the perforated seat 
whereon the Popes are compelled to sit prior to their being in- 



CHALC0GRAPH1MANIA. 175 



Nicnackatarian Mania. 



Whereto the bold pursuit let's add, 
Of him that after wives was mad, 



vested with the triple crown, for the purpose of submitting to a 
strict examination, which was deemed most essential after the hoax 
passed upon the Conclave by the female commonly called Pope 
Joan. In addition to this chair mania, I have recently been in- 
formed that the spectacles of Huntingdon, and every other article, 
produced similar exorbitant sums, while it is asserted that a wag- 
gon of the prophet's was purchased by a farmer, who was one of 
his most zealous followers, for no less a sum than one thousand 
two hundred pounds. This also brings to recollection the 
rage that was manifested for any precious relic that had belonged 
to Edward Edwards, the black preacher, on his leaving England in 
the capacity of a missionary, to preach the gospel among his 
swarthy brethren. 

(p) In the person of S—r J—s—ph B — ks we have a striking 
instance of this mania, which was carried to such an extent, that 
in order to ascertain whether any relationship or affinity existed 
between a flea and a lobster, one of the former insects was boiled, 
when his coat not turning scarlet, it was incontestibly proved, that 

" Fleas are not lobsters by the Lord!" 



176 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



BOOK IV. 



Nicnackatariaii Mania. 



Who took arch Mahomet's advice; 
For, where he treats of paradise, 



Having spoken on the subject of animals and insects, I cannot 
forget to make mention of L — y C — te C — pb — //, who is a 
most determined bird-fancier, having no less than ten parrots at 
the same time ; one of which happening to be sick, her ladyship 
absolutely sat up for ten nights with this feathered favourite, 
during which period she never once changed her apparel. I have 
further to add in respect to the bird mania, that a lady, named 
Orby Hunter, some short time back positively bequeathed two 
hundred pounds per annum for the maintenance of a favourite 
parrot, so long as he should continue in the land of the living. 
Nor be forgotten Poor Tom Sugden, the mendicant, whose love 
for pigeons was never surpassed by any fancier of that billet- 
carrying bird. 

(q) To these various predilections should be subjoined the 
tulip mania and botanical cacotthes, for which innumerable indi- 
viduals have been and are famed, witness the late D — ct — r 

D—rw — n, and the living D r Th—nt—n, whose specimens 

are now disseminated through the medium of a lottery, a specious 
but deceptive plan, which was also resorted to by Messrs. Macklin 



book it. CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 177 

Xicnackatanan Mania. 

He makes the charms of women — heav'n ; 
So Langford took of wives just seven (r), 
A number that might scare to death 
The boldest Turk that ere drew breath. 
Nor pass we by that shameless band, 
Dispensing with a lib'ral hand, 
Large sums, indecent books to buy, 
And prints disgusting to the eye (s) : 



and Boydell, the latter of whom was by this means rescued from 
that pecuniary difficulty which was brought on by the pressure of 
the times. 

(r) This fellow, who formerly officiated as a methodist preacher, 
was literally tried at the Old Bailey a short time back, and found 
guilty of the above flagrant enormities, for which he received 
sentence of transportation for seven years, being just twelve 
months banishment for every such conjugal enjoyment. 

(s) De gustiius non est disputandum, 

N 



178 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 

Nicnackatarian Mania. 

Witness from Duke of first degree, 

E'en to old sporting Colonel T ft) : 

In fine, full many none suspect, 
On themes like these alone reflect, 
Disgracing thus the manly name, 
And blazon'd sons of guilt and shame. 



(t) In addition to the late D— Q the D— Y— and C 

T — n, L — d H — k — , must also stand on record as famous for 
this infatuation, which I am sorry to add is much too prevalent : 
neither ought I to omit the mention of foreigners, who are most 
notorious for giving publicity to these incentives to vice. 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 179 



Conclusion. 



CONCLUSION. 



Jamque opus exigi quod nee Jovis ira, nee ignes, 
Nee poterit ferrum, nee edax abolere vetusta. 

OVID. 

Here ends my work defying sword and fire, 
Time's gnawing tooth — and Jove's destructive ire. 



Thus far the Muse her course hath run, 
To league with fame, her darling son, 
That Chalcographian thrice renown'd, 
Collector famous, judge profound; 
Sir Catalogus, who reveres 
Sales, and their heroes Auctioneers; 
Whose glib tongues go like windmills' clack, 
When treating of renown'd Elstracke; 
n2 



180 CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA, 

Conclusion. 

Passes, of which they are true lovers, 
Faithornes and Hollars, Marshalls, Glovers; 
And yielding Chalcographian food, 
Laborious White and rare Gaywood ; 
Nor does he less feel pleas' d to squint ! 
On Place's famous mezzotinto. 
Or Smith, a scraper wond'rous rare, 
And Valliant too, beyond compare (u). 



(u) The undermentioned are remarkably fine specimens from 
the gravers of the several artists, &c. named above, viz. King 
Charles I. when Prince of Wales, standing by a chair, from 
the burin of Elstracke — James I. and his family, with Prince 
Henry, holding a scull, by William Passe — The same Monarch 
and his Queen, Anne of Denmark, by Simon Passe — and the 
Marchioness of Buckingham, with the border, by Magdalena 
Passe — Cromwell between the pillars, Sir William and Lady 
Paston, with Carew Reynell, by Faithorne — Sir Thomas Chaloner 
and the views of Arundel House, by Hollar — The Earl of 



CHALC0GRAPHIMAN1A. 181 

Conclusion. 

Having to view alike display 'd 
His friends — the dealers in this trade, 
And prov'd he ranks with Peers on par, 
Divines and lawyers at the bar ; 
Soldiers and gentlemen of worth, 
With acres bless'd of dirty earth : 



Stirling, by Marshall — Sir Thomas Urquhart, by Glover — Bar- 
bara Urselin, by Gaywood — Nonsuch Toole, by Declarum — 
George Clifford, Earl ef Cumberland, with Sir Martin and 
Doctor Martin Leicester, by Robert White. With regard to 
specimens of mezzotinto excellence, I must here enumerate Sterne, 
Archbishop of York, by Place — King James II. with the Anchor 
and John Beggams, a foreign bishop, by John Smith, together 
with Valliant's portrait of his wife, and the sheet print of his 
family, all of which are striking instances of the talent possessed 
by these several professors of the Chalcographian art. 

N. B. It is necessary that I should offer an apology for having 
omitted to mention the name of L — d St — mf — rd, in the list of 
collectors ; the pursuit of that nobleman being dedicated to the 
accumulation of Hollar's prints, of which he has to boast a very 
fine assortment, 



182 



CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA. 



Conclusion. 



Merchants — the nation's mighty props, 

And keepers of pawnbrokers' shops: 

Having, I say, enroll'd my story, 

And crown'd mine hero— son of glory ; 

What else remains for me to do, 

Than bid my Pegasus bring-to? 

Wherefore all comments to cut short, 

Since brevity is wisdom'sybrtf, 

The hand to curb-rein I apply, 

Thus bidding readers, all good bye; 

And Catalogus hail the GREAT, 

Thus shrin'd in Chalcographian state. 




INDEX 



NAMES MENTIONED. 



Ab— RD— N, Mrs 123 

Achilles 10 

Ack— rm — n, Mr 121 

Albans Saint, the Boke of, 71 

Alcibiades 165 

Aldr— d— ge, Mr 120 

, Mrs 120 

Alexander 14 

All— n, Mr. the Br— w— r, 55. 
105 

— , the Player 34 

Almon, Hist, of the Sons of, 73 
Amati, Maker of Violins. .171 



Page 

Ames, Mr 17, 25 

Angelo, Michael 11 

Anna, Queen of Denmark,l80 

Antonio, Marc 144 

Appolyn, History of King, 73 

Arg— 1, D— k— of 59 

Arragon, Catherine of . « . . 137 

B 

B — nk — s, S — r J — s — ph, 
B— r— n— t.s.... 12.175 

, Miss. 143 

B — yn — s, Measter ...... 64 



184 



iNDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



Page 
B— ik— r, Mr. of R— ss— 1 

St— t 153 

B— rry, Mr 28. 167 

B— rryni— e, E— 1 of . . . . 137 

B— th, M— rq— s of 33 

, M— rch— ss of. . . 33 

Battalia, Francis, the Stone 

Eater 120 

B— cl- re, L— dy Di— a, 104 

B— kf— d, Mr 174 

B— df— d, present D— k— 

of 138 

, late D— k— of,13S 

B— chy, S— r W— 11— m, 

166, 167 
Beggarus, a foreign Bishop,181 
Bellingham, the Assassin . .172 

B— lo_, Mr 61 

Bettelini, Mr 91 

B— go, Mr 122 

Bhemen, Jacob 142 

B— ndl— y, Mr 134 

Billv, Slender 137 



Page 

B— ng, Mr 138, 139. 174 

Bl— gr— v— , M— j— r. . . 65 
Blanchardyn, History of. . 73 
Bl— n— f— d, M— rq— s of, 

30, 31. 73. 143 

B— d— u, Mr 57. 153 

Boccacio 30. 72. 75 

Boileau 166 

Bonaparte 14. 92 

Boswell, Mr. James 57 

B— ch— r, Mr 57 

Boccus, King of Sydracke, 

History of 74 

Boruwlaski, Count 98 

Bowes, Stoney 18 

B— yd— 11, Aid— m— n . . 16. 

177 

Br— rd, Mr.. . .105. 107. 133 

Br— nt, Mr. . .17, 18, 19. 32, 

33.63 

, Mr.jun 33 

Br— t— n, Mr 159 

Bromley 22 



NDE$ TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



185 



Page 

Br— wn— , P— t— r 119 

Br— n the B— ks— r 125 

B. — k — gh — ra, Marchioness 

of, and Feather Fan ... 21 
B — ck — gh — m, M — rq — s 

of 19 

— ■ , M — rch — ss 

of 19.180 

B— ckst— ne, Mr 107 

B— 11, Mr 31. 34 

B— 11, Miss.. 31 

Bull and Farnham, the 

Weavers 22 

Burgundy, Duke of 17 

Burnet 11. 134. 147 

B— te, M— rq— s of 34 

B—xt— n, Mr 107 

C 

Callot, the Engraver 98 

Cardozo, the Dwarf ..... 98 



Page 

C— r— y, Mr 122 

Carew, Reynell 180 

C— If— d, Mr 15. 44. 84. 

106. 111. 114 

C— mp— 11 176 

Caxton 17. 22. 70 

Cesar 14 

Cesar, Family of .... 11. 123 

Ch— lm— rs, Mr 57 

Charles, Prince 149 

Charles I. . , 4. 145. 180 

Charles II. . .4. 141. 145. 157 
Ch— rl— te, the P— n— ss . 170 
Chaloner, Sir Thomas .... 180 

Chatham, Lord 54 

Chatterton, Thomas. . .28. 85 

Chaucer, Geoffrey 71 

, whole length of. . 100 

Cheesemonger, Lady de- 
scended from 106 

Ch — ,st— e, sen 5. 50 

> jun 49 

Churchill, the Poet 102 



186 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



Page 
Clarendon.. 11. 52. 118.134. 
148 
Clifford, George, Earl of 

Cumberland 181 

Co— t— s, Mr 154 

Cocker 4 

C— In— g— i, Mr 16. 92 

C— mbe, D— ct— r 52 

C— r— m, Mr 19.113 

Coram the Philanthrophist, 

114, 156 
C— sw— y, Mr. R— h_d . . 141 

Cr— ch— r— d, Mr 60 

Cremona 171 

Cresus 121 

Crib 137 

Crispin, Saint 98 

Cromwell, Oliver, between 

the Pillars 180 

Cr— wl— , Mr 148 

C— mb— 1— d, D— k— of.. 94 
■ , George Clif- 
ford, Earl of 181 



Page 

Cut-purse Moll 22 

Cuyp «... 162 



D 



Dancer, Mr. Nathaniel ... 87 

D— rd— s, Mr 18 

D— rt—n, Mr 126 

, Mr.jun 93 

Darwin, Doctor 176 

D— v— ds— n, Mr. Al— x- 

— d— r 159 

D— v— s, Mr. H— t, M. P. 160 

D— ght— n, Mr 60 

Delarum, the Engraver. . .181 

Despard, Colonel 172 

, Mrs 172 

D— nt, Mr. D— g, M. P.56. 92 

Dermer, Mr 169 

D— v— sh— r, D— k— of, 

71, 72. 137 
D— bd— n, Mr.. . . .24, 25. 27 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



187 



Page 
D— m— d— 1— , B— r— n . . 98 
D— dd, Mr. A— ct— r ... 16. 
58. 65. 67. 69 
D— ds~ll, G— n-r— 1... 8. 
X35 
D— n—g— 1, M—rq— s of, 127 

Don Quixote 11 

D— ce, Mr 97. 136 

Douw, Gerard 166 

Droeshout, Martin 99 

D— y,Mr 105 

Dryd— n 304 

Dubois I67 

E 

Edward IV 13 

Edwards, Ederd, the Mis- 
sionary 175 

Egerton, Mr. John 106 

Eglantyne, History of. . . . 73 
El— z—th, Pr— n_ss .... 132 



Page 
El — z — th Grey, Queen of 

Edward IV 73 

Elstracke 179, 180 

Elwes, Mr 87 

Ely, late B— sh_p of, 51. 137 

Esculapius j$ 

Ev — ns, Mr 69. 72 

Exeter, Earl of ........ . 143 

F 

Faithorne . . . . 4. 30. 60. 180 

F— Id— -r, Mr. 106 

F— nn—ni, Mad-— 1 — . .137 

Farmer, Doctor 52 

Farnham and Bull 22 

Faustus, Doctor ........ 142 

F~4t— n, Mr. 99 

Ferrex and Porrex ...... 72 

Fielding, Sir John 49 

F— f— , the E— 1 of 63. 65 

Finiguerra,Thomas, 23, 24, 25 
F— tzw— 11— m, E—l . . . . 25 



188 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



Page 

Fl— xm— n, Mr 144 

, Mrs 143 

Flora, Fables of 104 

Florus, Francis 50 

Fl— y— r, Mr 18 

F— nn— r— u, Mr 114 

Fothergill, Collection of. . 85 
Frederyke of Jefinerr, 

History of 73 

F — s — li, Mr., R. A 27 

G 

Gahagan 144 

G— rd— r, Mr 28 

Garrick, Mr 34, 127, 156 

, Mr. the Player's 

Nephew 127 

Gaywood 180, 181 

G ge II 28 

— III 28.132 

Gibbons, Bill 137 

Gilleray, Mr. 145 



Page 
Gl— c— st—r, D— k— of.. 118 
Glover, the Engraver 180, 181 

Godwin, Mr 100 

Gorbadue 72 

G— rd— n, D— k— of 138 

, D— ch— ss of. .138 

G— ss— t, D— ct— r, 36. 57. 58 
Gower, his Confessio 

Amantis 75 

Gowland, Mr. 156 

Gramrnont, Memoirs of 

Count 141 

Granger, Mr. . .14. 20. 22. 3l. 

34. 46. 52. 1G7. 111. 114. 

127. 147 

Gr— v— s, Mr. sen 30. 83 

Gr— v— s, Mr. jun...l6. 46. 
84. 115. 120 

Gr — n, Mr. sen 122 

Gr— n, Mr. jun 122 

Grose, Captain 170 

Guistarde and Sigesmunde, 

History of 74 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



189 



Page 
Gulley 137 

H 

Hamilton, Duke of 25 

, Lady 157 

H— rd— g, Mr. Edw 103 

— , Mr. Geo. 103. 122 

H_ rv— y, Mr 127 

Hase, Mr 132 

H— wk.-, L— d 178 

Hawys, Stephen ........ 74 

Heath, Mr. the Engraver . . 93 
H— v— s— d— , Mr. 372, 173 

Heber, Mr. 73 

Hector 10 

Henry 8th, 22.136 

— Prince, Son of 

James I 180 

H— rb— t, Mr 101 

■ , Mr. Nephew of, 70. 

100 



Page 
H— rb— t, Mr.Circus pr— m- 

t— r 124 

H — rv — y and D — rt — on, 

Messires ....126 

H— 11, Mr 153 

Hogarth, 28. 34. 101. 142. 
145 
H— 11— nd, Mr. the A-c- 

t_ r 58. 68 

Hollar .... 4. 120. 180, 181 

H-Jl— sw— th, Mr 144 

Horace, 44. 64. 131. 146. 
151 

Hotham, Sir John 45 

Humphreys, Miss 145 

Huher, Mr 25 

Huntingdon, Mr 174, 175 

H— ntl— y, M— rq— s of, 138 
Hunter, Mrs. Orbey .... 176 
H— st, Mr 125 

I-J 
Infanta of Spain .148 



190 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED- 



Page 

Inglefield, Sir Henry 30 

Ing— bly, S—r J— n, Bart. 1 7 
Ir— 1— d, S—m—1, Mr. ... 34. 
101. 142 
, W— 11— m, H— n- 

ry,Mr 56. 85.102 

, John 34. 102 

James 1 4, 22. 34. 180 

■ II. with the Anchor 181 

Jason, the valiant Knight 

of 72 

J— ff— ry, Mr 16. 116 

J—nn— ngs, Mr. D — g . . .165 
Jerome, Saint, the Life of, 70 

Joan, Pope 175 

Johnson, Doctor 57 

Jonson, Ben 97 

Jourdan, General 37 

Junot, General 137 

Juvenal 31 

K 
K—mbl— , Mr 35. 151 



Page 
K— rr, L— d M—rk, 32. 150 

Ketch, Jack 172 

Kham, the, of Tartary. . .149 

K— ng, Mr 52. 114 

Kirby, Mr ...113 

Kirget, Mr 29 



L 

L— ke, S—r J— m— s, Bart. 30. 
63. 148 

Langford, Mr 177 

Latona, and the Lycian 

Shepheards 150 

Lavater 109 

L— gh, Mr. A — ct — n— r, 54. 
58 

Leonora, Poem of 104 

L— st— r, S—r J— hn, Bart.166 

, Sir Martin 181 

. , Doctor Martin 

181 
L—p-d, Mr ....106 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



191 



Page 

L— chf— d, Mr 153 

L— ch, Mr. Auctioneer. ... 52 

L— -mb— rt 139 

L— gm— n, Mr.. 125 

Lydgate, John 74 

M 

M— ckl— n, Mr 176 

Mahome 176 

Mainwaring, Sen 148 

, j un 148 

M— 1— ne, Mr 34. 57 

Mansfield, Sir James .... 32 
M— rib— h, D— k— of . . .142 

Marshall 180, 181 

Martial, Epigrammatist . . 57 
Mary, of Ncmegen, Histo- 
ry of 74 

M— th— s, Mr 156 

Mezeray, the Historian. . .173 
Miller, Joe 97 



Page 

Milton 11. 174 

Moses and Pharaoh's Daugh- 
ter 150 

Mollineux 137 

M— It— o, Mr 16. 89 

, Mr. Jun 91 

Moore, Doctor, by Faith- 

orne 60 

Mortimer, the Artist 142 

Musgrave, Sir William, Bart. 

14, 15. 47 

N 

Nassau, Family of 149 

Nelson, Lord 144. 157 

Nero 38 

Newland, Abraham .... 156 

N— ch— Is, Mr 16. 17 

N— c— 1, Mr 17 

N— ch— Is, Mrs 13 

Nixon, the Cheshire pro- 
phet 142 



192 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



Page 

N— rf— k, D—k— of, 17, 18. 

32. 63 

Nornaville, Mr 72 

N— rr— s, Mr 171 

North, Lord 54. 91 

, Lady 91 

, Miss 91 

O 

Ot— g— , Mr 92 

Orf—d, E— 1 of 28. 174 

Orm— , Mr 125 

Oss— It— n, L— d 141 

Otl— y, Mr 27 

O'Toole, Nonsuch 18 1 

Oxford, Earl of 30 

P 

P-ls_r, Mr 66 

Painphilio . , . . , 170 



Page 

Parmegiano 136 

p— rr D— ct— r 57 

P— ry, Mr 97 

P— rs — ns, Mr 122 

Passe, Simon 4. 64. 180 

, Crispin 4. 64 

Passe, William, Jun. 4. 64. 
180 

, Magdalena, 4. 22. 64. 

150. 180 

Paston, Sir William 180 

Lady 180 

Pennant, Mr 11. 148 

Percival, Mr ..172 

Persius 14 

Ph— 11— p— ,Mr 59 

~ — , Mrs 59 

Philalethes, or Webb, Esq. 57 
Ph— 11— ps,S~rR— ch— d, 

Knt .100 

Pilkington, Mr.. . 27. 51. 158 

p_nd— r, P— t— r 28 

Pinson 22 



NDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



193 



Page 
Pitt, the Right Hon. Wil- 
liam 54 

Place, Mezzotioto Scraper, 

181 

Plato 7 

P— rt— r, W— lsh 165 

Portuguese Ambassador . . 98 

Proteus 121 

Punch, Tom 65 

Q 

Queen, the 1 32 

Q— nsb— y, D— k— of. .137, 

178 

Quixote, Don 11 



R 

Raphael ........ 11. 51. 142 

R_wl— , Mr 157 

Reed, Mr. . . , 53 

R~s, Mr. 125 



Page 

R— g— lit, the Pr— e. .61. 93. 

105. 167. 169 

Rembrandt 61 

R— v_ly, the Rev 164 

Reynell, Carew 180 

Richard HI 58. 153 

R— ch— d— n, Mr 15, 16. 

44. 69. 99 

Rigaud, Mr. 67 

R — b— ns, Mr 127 

Roscius 153 

R—wl— s, Mr. 69 

R— xb_gh, D-Js— of . . 69, 
70.75 

Rubens 8. 142 

Rumfius ........170 

Rummin, Nell 22 

Ruysdale 162 

S 

S— nd— s, Mr 71. 76. 174 

Sc— tt, Mr. W— It— r ... .126 
o 



194 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



Page 

Sc— tt, Mr. W.. .20. 70. 104. 

108. 127 

, Mr. J. ..19. 48. 70. 

76. 101. 104. 133 

Selles 94 

Selman, Pickpocket .... 22 

Selwyn, George, Esq 137 

Shakespeare.. 11. 36. 53. 75. 
104 
, St— e's En- 
graving of 96 

, R-ch-d- 

— n's Heads of 99 

, P — rry's Pic- 
ture of 97 

Sharpe, Mr. Engraver. ... 93 
Sheridan, R. B. Esq. M. P. 57 

Shipton, Mother 142 

S— mco, Mr 16. 86 

Skelton, Poet Laureate. . . 22 

Slender Billy 137 

Sm— rt, Mr 165. 169 

Smith, Mr. J. T 16 



Page 
Smith, Mezzotinto Scraper, 

180, 181 

S— thby, Mr 54. 58 

Southampton, Lord 30 

Sp— n— r, Earl.. 31. 59. 70. 
73. 117. 136 

St— ce, Mr 16. 32. 95 

St— fF— d, M— rq--s of . . 158 

St— mf— d, Lord .181 

St— nl— y, Mr 69, 70 

Sterling, Earl of 180 

Sterne, Archbishop of 

York 181 

St— w— t, Mr 17, 18. 62 

___, Mr. Peter 19 

Stothard, Mr. . .144. 166, 167 

Strathmore, Lady 18 

Straduarius, Maker of Vio- 
lins 171 

St— r_r, Mr. Anthony . . .107 

Strutt, Mr 22. 29 

Styer, Maker of Violins, 171 
S— ct, Mr 157 



NDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



195 



Page 

Sugden Tom 176 

Summers, Will, the Jester, 136 

S — th — 1 — d, Mr. . . 105. 107. 

123 

Swedenborgh 142 

Syk— s, S— r M— st— n 
M— rk 30 

T 

T— nk— v— le, L— d 170 

Tenis, Life of Catherine of, 70 

Th— ne, Mr 16. 26. 85. 90 

Thompson, Thomas, M. P. 148 
Thoresby, Mr. Leeds His- 
torian 14 

Th— nt— n, D— ct— r . . .176 
Th—nt— n, C— 1— n— 1 . . .178 

T_rn— y, Mr. M. P 117 

T— ke, Mr. H— rne 53 

T— rre, Mr 90 

T— k— ns, Mr 65 

T— wnl—y, Mr 114. 148 



Page 
T— wn— d, M— rq— s .... 57 

Tr— ph— k, Mr 16, 17. 73 

Tr— si— r 34 

Tullius, on Old Age 70 

T — rn — r, S — r Gr — g— y 

P— ge, Bart 140 

Tighe, Mr 47. 171 

T— ss— n, Mr 55. 108 

V— U 

Valliant 180,181 

, Mrs. and Family, 181 

Van Assen 97 

V— nc— t, Mr 102 

Vergilius, the Life of 73 

Virgil 103 

Udn y, Mr 59 

Urq— h— t, S— r Th— m— s 

181 

, Mr 172 

Urselin, Barbara 181 



196 



INDEX TO NAMES MENTIONED. 



w 

Page 

VValcot, Doctor 28 

W— Id- -n, Mr 57. 151 

Walton, the Angler 139 

Walter, William 74 

W— rw— k, the E— 1 of . 173 

Waterloo 162 

Webb, Mr 57 

, the Author 74 

Wellington, Marquis. .37. 158 
West, Mr. R. A. .28. 166, 167 

, Mr. his Sale 71 

W— st— n— , Mr 107 

Wharton, Doctor 57 

Whitbread, Mr 13 

White, Mezzotinto Scraper, 

180 

, Robert ; 181 

Wilkie, Mr. R. A 166, 167 



Page 
Williams, the Murderer , .177 

Wilson, Mr 33 

Winken de Worde 73 

W— db— n, Mr 24 

, Mr. P— ts— r, 23, 

24,25,26. 60.165. 169 

, Mr. F— me- 

m— k— r 24 

, Mr. B— ks— r, 24 

Wouvermans 162 

Wyatt, Mr 57 

Y 

Y— m— th,L— d 137 

Y— k, D— k— of 178 

, D— ch— ss 170 

Z 

Zimmerman 167 



GENERAL INDEX 



CONTENTS, 



Page 

ADELPHI, the 167 

Alcibiades, Antique Dog of 165 

Althrope, curious Picture at 136 

Angler, Walton's rare Edition never paid for 139 

Antiquarian Society, insufficient Member of the 159 

Antwerp, Ruben's Mansion at 142 

Arm Chair, one sold for £60, 174 

Armour, old Collector of 169 

, Knights roasted in 173 

Arts and Artists of Bristol, Poetical Delineation of. . 161 

, flourishing State of, in the Metropolis 166 

, Society for the Encouragement of, in the Adelphi .... 167 

Artists, the Modern, a Patronizer of -. 166 



198 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Arundel House 180 

Auction Room, View of 69 

Milling Match at one 69 

Mart 78 

Auctioneers, Act of Parliament relating to 68 

, a Classical one 49 

Author, the Picturesque one, outwitted 101 

Authors, Royal and Noble 33. 106 

Autographs, Copies of 85 

Autumn, heroic Apostrophe to 43 



Bagnige Wells 9 

Bail, running away from 77 

Bailey, the Old 177 

Bank Notes, their Value known to R — y — lty 132 

Bankers, Account of Portraits vested at a 110 

Bartholomew Fair 13 

Basiologia 63 

Belgic Sprite, pertinacity of a 59 

Bibles illustrated , 32 

Biographical History, Granger's 14 



GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 199 



Page 

Bird Fancier 176 

Boccacio, high Price given for 31 

Books, Obscene one's collected 177, 178 

Bookbinding, Utility of 101 

Boy, a carrotly-headed one engraved 91 

British Museum, the 60, 61 

■ , Theft at the 60 

Bristol, Arts and Artists at 160 

Brewhouse, Whitbread's 13 

Buckingham House '69 

Burnet Illustrated 15 

Buying and Selling, Proofs of, in Gentlemen 133 

C 

Carleton House 165. 169 

Carpet Warehouse, Leicester Fields 67 

Castle Street, Leicester Fields, Anecdote that oc^ 

curred there 117 

Catalogue of English Heads, Bromley , , « t 22 

Catalogus, well disposed of 39 

, accurate Description of 11 

, his Person . . 12 

-, his Physiognomy , , ib. 



200 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Catalogus, his Corporation 12 

, his thighs ib. 

, his legs ib. 

, his feet ib. 

, his hat ib. 

, his wig ib. 

, his Coat 13 

• , his Waistcoat ib. 

, his Inexpressibles ib. 

■ , his hose ib. 

, his boots ib. 

■ , his Walking Stick ib. 

, his Martial Deportment ib. 

Chalcography, Invention of 23 

Chalcographian superiority, Struggles for the At- 
tainment of 67 

Cheshunt, Hertfordshire 101 

China, Specimens of, collected 170 

Church, Saint Dunstan's 72 

Circus, the Royal 124 

Clarendon illustrated, Copies of 15 

Coach, Landscape so called 61 

Coins, Collectors of 170 

Collecting, meanness in , 133. 149 



GENERAL INDEX OP CONTENTS. 201 



Page 

Collection, a fine one 102 

Collectors, Ignorance of, generally speaking 147 

Companions, dissolute one stigmatized 137 

Copy, a pretty one 37 

Covent Garden Theatre 155 

Courtship of Twenty Years, Marriage after 58 

Crammer, a, meaning of, explained 38 

Curious Personages 113 

Cyprian, the, and Gowland's Lotion Paper 156 

D 

Death, a precise Emblem of 31 

Dirt, the Collector's sacred Erugo 117 

Dog, Antique of, sold for £1000 57. 165 

Fancier, Account of one, and a Noble Peer 138 

Drury Lane Theatre 155 

Duke's Place 137 

Dulwich College 34 

Dupes, Seven Species of 105 

E 

Engravers, Strutt's Dictionary of ..,.,... , 2a 

p 



202 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

European Museum, the 99 

Exclamation, an heroic one 10 

F 

Family, the* of James 1 180 

Fashion, the Amateur of a Letter Mania 154 

Fire, destructive Effects of a ...... 135 

, an Apology for applying to the Pawn-shop 110 

Fleet Prison, the 18 

Flora,, the Fables of 104 

Florence 24 

Fools, an Erudite Chronicler of, recorded 130 

Foppery, Theatrical 154 

Foreign Portraits, Mistakes committed in illustrating 148 

Foreigners, shameful predilection for 94 

Foundling Hospital, the 114 

Frogmore 104 



G 



Gambling, Reprehension of 137 

Garrick, Collector of his Portraits 156 

Giles's, Saint 169 



GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 203 



Page 

Glass, stained, Collector of 173 

Gone, Gone, harmony in the Sound of .44 

Gotland's Lotion Bills 156 

Grammont, Illustration of . , . 141 

Granger, Expence of collecting for . . 45 

, illustrated Copies of 23 

, Profit and Loss sustained by illustrated Copies 

of 127 

, illustrated Dilapidation of a 107 

Graphimanians, Account of. , 153 

Grocer, Account of a, and Private Plate 89 

H 

Halters, Collector of .... 172 

Ham, the Common at 20 

Hammer, the, when particularly useful 63 

Hercules, and the Hydra Print of 26 

Hermes Hill 174 

Hero, a Chalcographian one described 84 

History of Engravers, Lord Orford's 28 

Hogarth, Collection of 102. 142 

Honour, the Acme of 90 



204: GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Hounds, D — g D — nt's Antipathy to 56 

Human Life, Econonry of 104 



I 

Illustration, how to accomplish cheap 142 

Image Vender, Account of an , 90 

Impressions, comparative Value of, according to their 

Excellence 23 

, Proof Price annexed to 60 

Imprudence, or a Visit to the Country 108 

Invectives, unjustifiable ones 10 

Invocation, an Heroic Specimen of 10 

Ireland's Fabrications, who purchased by 56 

Islington 9 



K 



King's Bench, the 18 

Knock-out, Nature of one explained 47 

» Pugilistic Contest at 69 



GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 205 



L 

Page 

Lambeth Palace «, 66. 124 

Marsh, Penny-print Vender at 66 

Lanterns, Staffs, and Rattles, &c. Collector of . . 173 

Leeds, Library of the Historian of 14 

Leicester Fields 67 

Leonora, Pictorial Embellishments to 104 

Lycian Shepherds, the, and Latona 150 

Londina 124 

Lying, the Auction Pulpit's Heir Loom 50 

M 

Mania, Origin of a 8 

, Description of a 133. 142 

, Armour.... 170. 173 

, Auction 36 

, Bible 32, 150 

, Bird 176 

, Burnett ► 15. 148 

, Bu st 144 

, Caricatures 145 

, Chair 174 

, Clarendon ..,..,.. 15, 148 



206 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Mania, Coin , 170 

, Dogs 165. 170 

, Fiddle 170 

, Fool 136 

, for Foreigners 95 

1 , Garrick 156 

, Grammont 141 

, Granger 114. 127. 148 

, Graphic, New, 135- 159 

, Old 135. 159 

, Halter 172 

, Hogarth # 142 

, Masks . . . 144. 172 

, Medal 170 

, Methodistical 174, 175 

, Military Saddle 169 

, Modern Graphije 135. 159 

, Natural History. 174 

, Nicnackatarian 168 

ft , Obscene 177, 178 

— — -, Odd Characters 98 

, Parrot 176 

■^- — r=-, Pennant .- j 15. 148 

, Picture 159, 160 



GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 207 



Page 

Mania, Pilfeeing 149 

, Pilkington 23. 159 

, Play i 152 

i Procession 143 

, Raphael 142 

, Rattle, Staff, and Lantern 173 

, Rope 172 

, Rubens 142 

-, Saddles 169 

, Shakespeare 34 

, Shell 170 

, Shop Bill 171 

, Snuff Boxes 171 

, Stage 154 

, Stained Glass 173 

, Stothard 144 

, Strutt 23 

, Tea Pot 174 

, Theatrical 35. 151. 153. 155 

, Tobacco Papers . . . . , 171, 172 

, Topographical 16 

, Tulip 176 

, Typographical 24. 101. 135 

. Universal 140. 174 



208 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Mania, Universal, how cooled 140 

, Wig 157 

, Wife 175. 177 

Marsh-gate, the, Errand Boy Printseller 66 

Masquerade, a Gentleman Stage Lover, addressed at the, 150 

Medals, Collection of 170 

Methodistical Relics, Collection of 174, 175 

Mezzotinto Scrapers, their Works described 180 

Miniature Painter, Reverence of one for Titles 142 

Monthly Mirror, a Gentleman Scribbler for the 153 

Moses, the finding of 150 

Muck, Running a 55, 56 

N 

Native Talent, Neglect of 94 

Natural History, Collection of 174 

Nicnackatarians, Venders of Curiosities 1G8 

O 

Obscene Prints, Collectors of 121 

Books, ditto 121 

Odd Characters, a proper Decoration for the Title of 112 
Old Bailey, the 75. 120 



GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 209 



P 

Page 

Painters, Pilkington's Dictionary of 23 

Painting, Anecdotes of 28 

Pall Mall 28. 71. 104 

Paper, the Date of, known by its Taste 25 

Paradise of Dainty Devices, Copy of 74. 139 

Paris 27 

Parrot, the good keeping of one 176 

Paternoster-Row, Great Firm there 125 

Pennant, Collectors for 148 

Piazza, Covent Garden, the 120 

Picture Dealer, a Reverend one 133. 165 

Sale, Mistake at 51.63 

Pictures, celebrated one by Barry in the Adelphi 167 

Pilkington, Collectors for 23 

Plates, Old Ones newly discovered 8" 

Poem, Conclusion of the 179 

Poet, the would-be, over matched 103 

Portrait, Augmentation in the Value of 84 

, high Price given for 30 

■ , Copies of Rare Ones necessary 45 

Portraits, anonymous, a Nominator for 96 

, Spurious, Engravings of 96 

Portraiture, a, after Lavater 109 

Prints, obscure ones collected 121 

o 



210 GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Printseller, a, too much for the Trade 112 

, Priuium Mobile 44 

, Vender's Promissory Notes, how dis- 
counted 121 

, Vender, a Clerical Specimen 133. 165 

Printing House, Private One at Strawberry Hill 29 

Private Plates, Account of 89 

Processions, Collector of 143 

Proofs by mistake selected at the British Museum. ...#... 61 
Purley, Diversions of 53 

Q 
.* ■ 

Quartern Loaf, infinite Utility of a,.* 47 

Queen Square, Parsimonious Collector of 144 

R 

Ratcatcher, Account of 93 

Ripley Castle 17 

Rome, Vatican at 30 

Ropes, a Collector of 172 

Royal and Noble Authors, new Publication of, by whom 

supported 106 

Rub ens, Collector of 142 

, Mania for the Mansion of 142 

Russian Company, President of the 134 

■ , Tallow, happy Speculation in 161 






GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 211 



Page 

Saddles, Military ones collected 169 

Saint Dunstan's Church 72 

Ditto ditto Statues there 73 

Saint Martin's Lane, and Going 25. 68. 105 

Scottish Manners and Acquirements, Description of, 108 

Shamrock, or Pat and the Clean Shirt 117 

Shells, Collection of 170 

Shell, £1000. paid for a Rare One ib. 

Shop Bills, a Collector of 171 

Square, in Tom Jones, adverted to ; 49 

Stained Glass, Collectors of 173 

Stockings, odd ones, worn by a Bookseller 116 

Stothard, Collector of his Works .-...* 144 

Strawberry Hill 29 

Strutt, Illustrated 23 

T 

Talent, Want of in Three Branches, of Collecting, Play- 
ing, and Poetry 152 

Tavistock Street, or D— d transmogrified 68 

Tea-pots, Collector of 132 

Temple, the 77 

Theatricals, Collectors of .......... 151 



21t GENERAL INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Page 

Tobacco Papers, Collector of 172 

Tribute Money, Rubens's Picture of 8 

Troye, the Historye of 73 

Trophy, a Martial one 37 

Tuplips, Collectors of 176 

Typographical Work, an Error in 17 

V— W 

Vatican, the 30 

Warwick Castle, fine Armoury at 173 

Westminster, Cosmography of 120 

Wigs, Collectors of 157 

Windsor 104 




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